I am unhappy with the new Views feature, which is enabled by default. I do not wish to be part of a website that prevents its users from browsing pages anonymously, especially if it also requires them to use their full names.
Can you please delete my Quora account and all associated data as soon as possible, including my public and anonymous answers. Please also send me a confirmation email once this data has been erased.
My account page is located at www.quora.com/XXXXXXXXXXXX.
Quora has processed my deletion request and confirmed that my account has been deleted. Except that not a whole lot was deleted, as far as I can see.
I can still log in.
I left my account logged in and did not deactivate it before sending the request. It looks like most of my details are still intact.
* My name was replaced with User-XXXX, where XXXX is a four-digit integer.
* My followers and the people I'm following were removed
* It looks like the comments that I left on answers have been deleted.
* I'm not sure about things like my biography, country of origin, etc. because I removed those myself first
* I can still see other details such as my edit history and the messages I have exchanged with others.
My answers do not seem to have been deleted.
I'm not 100% sure about this, because I made sure I manually deleted them all myself before asking for my profile to be deleted. But when I view a question I answered, I still have the option of undeleting my answer. Maybe Quora normally permadeletes answers only if they weren't manually deleted first. Maybe they just flag them as deleted like I did manually. I have no idea.
All the questions I had created still exist.
The only questions I was able to delete myself were the ones with no answers on them. The others remain, but with my name scrubbed off them. I find this acceptable and didn't expect Quora to delete other peoples' answers along with my questions.
Ultimately I'm pretty happy with this. I would have preferred to have everything permadeleted, but as long as my answers are no longer visible and my personal informatoin has been scrubbed, I'll leave it at that.
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To: privacy@quora.com
Subject: Account deletion request
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Hi Quora,
I am unhappy with the new Views feature, which is enabled by default. I do not wish to be part of a website that prevents its users from browsing pages anonymously, especially if it also requires them to use their full names.
Can you please delete my Quora account and all associated data as soon as possible, including my public and anonymous answers. Please also send me a confirmation email once this data has been erased.
My account page is located at www.quora.com/XXXXXXXXXXXX.
Regards,
XXXXXXXXXXXX