# How do I purge my account and all questions I have asked please?

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-do-i-purge-my-account-and-all-questions-i-have-asked-please/31933>\
**Category:** Meta Discussion\
**Created:** [December 6, 2019, 4:42pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-do-i-purge-my-account-and-all-questions-i-have-asked-please/31933 "2019-12-06T16:42:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![anon97116444](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@anon97116444](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/anon97116444)\
**Post date:** [December 6, 2019, 4:42pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-do-i-purge-my-account-and-all-questions-i-have-asked-please/31933/1 "2019-12-06T16:42:22Z")

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I want to purge my account and delete all the questions I have asked. I don’t really see how to do that. Thanks for any assistance.

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**Author:** ![vchuravy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/vchuravy/32/8_2.png) [@vchuravy](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/vchuravy)\
**Post date:** [December 6, 2019, 4:55pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-do-i-purge-my-account-and-all-questions-i-have-asked-please/31933/2 "2019-12-06T16:55:12Z")

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Discourse (the software) does not easily allow for all content of a user to be deleted.  
That is an intentional design decision since giving users unilaterally the choice of deleting their content would severely disrupt the archival nature of discussions. This also why all edits are tracked.

What I (or any other admin) can do is to “anonymize your account”. [Anonymizing Users in Discourse - announcements - Discourse Meta](https://meta.discourse.org/t/anonymizing-users-in-discourse/86929)

Which will purge your account details from the system and replace your username with something like “anon1234”.

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**Author:** ![anon97116444](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@anon97116444](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/anon97116444)\
**Post date:** [December 6, 2019, 5:02pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-do-i-purge-my-account-and-all-questions-i-have-asked-please/31933/3 "2019-12-06T17:02:49Z")

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hey there  
thank you for the speedy reply. Please could you anonymize my account. thank you

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**Author:** ![anon67531922](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/48db29/32.png) [@anon67531922](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/anon67531922)\
**Post date:** [March 9, 2021, 6:56am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-do-i-purge-my-account-and-all-questions-i-have-asked-please/31933/4 "2021-03-09T06:56:48Z")

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Could someone please anonymize / purge my account as well?

Thank you.

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**Author:** ![carstenbauer](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/carstenbauer/32/4981_2.png) [@carstenbauer](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/carstenbauer)\
**Post date:** [March 9, 2021, 7:20am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-do-i-purge-my-account-and-all-questions-i-have-asked-please/31933/5 "2021-03-09T07:20:54Z")

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Out of curiosity, may I ask why? (Of course, you don’t have to answer.)

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**Author:** ![anon67531922](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/48db29/32.png) [@anon67531922](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/anon67531922)\
**Post date:** [March 10, 2021, 1:06am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-do-i-purge-my-account-and-all-questions-i-have-asked-please/31933/6 "2021-03-10T01:06:44Z")

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I imagine for similar reasons as @anon94023334.

Thanks.

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**Author:** ![mbauman](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/mbauman/32/31082_2.png) [@mbauman](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/mbauman)\
**Post date:** [March 10, 2021, 2:09am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-do-i-purge-my-account-and-all-questions-i-have-asked-please/31933/7 "2021-03-10T02:09:06Z")

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The way to do this is to directly contact the [@moderators](https://discourse.julialang.org/groups/moderators) by either private message or a flag. It’s not a user-facing toggle because it’s rather disruptive.

I’m very sad to see you go, but can make this happen for you.

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**Author:** ![anon98050359](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d9b06d/32.png) [@anon98050359](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/anon98050359)\
**Post date:** [June 6, 2023, 10:08pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-do-i-purge-my-account-and-all-questions-i-have-asked-please/31933/8 "2023-06-06T22:08:44Z")

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Can I have my account and all my posts deleted from here?  
Please do it as soon as you can. I would really appreciate it.  
Thanks!

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**Author:** ![anon71627001](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a698b9/32.png) [@anon71627001](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/anon71627001)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2026, 7:06am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-do-i-purge-my-account-and-all-questions-i-have-asked-please/31933/9 "2026-06-19T07:06:16Z")

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Hello, I would also appreciate my account being anonymized. Thank you!