this post was submitted on 18 Apr 2024
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I get wanting to delete old accounts before leaving sites. That’s not really unreasonable.
They didn't ask that (which, btw, is under settings -> delete account), they asked to disable it.
At the risk of sounding like a Facebook group, this isn't an airport... you don't need to announce departure. Just leave. Voila. Done.
I wrote a more thorough response explaining why they are getting the reaction they are. I don’t disagree with you about most of their post. But delete, disable, whatever you wanna call it. We all know what they’re asking and it’s reasonable.
It is not unresonable to want to do that, but it stupid to believe that all Lemmy instances will comply with deleteion requests
I don’t think they assumed that would be the case, in fact, I don’t think they made any particular assumptions here. Hence why they asked the question: “is it possible?” It’s also probably beneath you to attack someone’s intellect like that just for asking a question on a community dedicated to asking questions.
Most websites have some sort of account deletion/disable feature with varying degrees of thoroughness. You’re acting like this person is asking for the impossible or unreasonable, and I don’t really know why.
That's fair, I can see how I was too harsh here, sorry OP!
I appreciate your hearing me out. I could probably follow your example more often on that front haha
I try to be resonable and kind when I feel the argument against me is fair.
I can and have absolutely been an ass when the situation is different though, but for the most part I am just quite mellow (:
It is kind of wild how even with how much experience many of us have online and on forums, with all that we know about the social behaviors it brings out, we can still get kind of nasty anyway.
That's the anonymity for you, for god and bad