I understand it when people want to delete their account, including their posts. You never know who will stumble upon your name and postings in the future. Just take a look at Beastforum and how they deal with account deletions....they never delete an account unless there are very good reasons...for BF, not for the user! There were several trials against "zoophiles" where the post history of Beastforum was used as evidence against the user involved and I really prefer some confusion and inconvenience reading through a thread with some deleted posts over this sub becoming a pool of evidence for the authorities to easily tap in when a user gets caught, his home raided and his computer taken...if he forgot to log out before the raid , anything he typed in here is first hand evidence against him.

Even if a large number of this sub´s users would decide to delete their entire accounts, making comprehension of most threads impossible, this is way better than the other option...especially when you realize how many self proclaimed zoophiles of today are only living through a short phase of interest in zoophilia, being able to delete can and probably will save some marriages in the future.

"Honey, I just found some old posts from you, saying that you´ve fucked several animals! " ...usually, conversations starting with this don´t go well in most of the cases....

One should never underestimate the possibilities the internet gives to ruin other people´s lives...and your own, too. Being able to delete everything you´ve ever posted in here isn´t an option I´d use because I stand for what I´ve written, but being able to push the "reset" button whenever it becomes necessary is something I very much appreciate.

I can say I have quited many online services because they changed their terms of service and I didn't agree with the new ones anymore. You may be happy with how example.org manages user data, then be unhappy after they tell you that they are going to share it with advertisers, and then remove yourself from the site before the terms apply because you don't want to accept the new conditions. Internet would be better if more people did this.

There is people who wants to withdraw their support from a certain board ("The webmaster is funding a campaign against the capitalist gay muslims, so I don't want my name to be ever asociated with his site") and there is just people who wants to delete things they have said because their own words are dangerous to them.

I don't think this necessarily applies to the Reddit users being talked about, but it comes to demonstrate that there are actual reasons for deleting an account on an Internet board.

For the record: the oldest forum protocol still in use, nntp/Usenet, has EVERY content published on it expire after certain time has passed. This was done in order to prevent old messages from overloading the server's storage in the early days, but it had the advantage of granting that nothing was eternal on the newsgroups.

For me its a protective habit, why leave loose ends? Just like animal porn I don't want any form of evidence available for the police, or anybody to find. But let me say no one is after me I am just being safe.

Account deactivation doesn't automatically delete posts. It just scrubs the username so outsiders can't link those posts together easily anymore (they'd have to have cached/saved the username link page while it was active).

Thanks.

Thank you.