# Delete my account
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/delete-my-account/120331
**Category:** Site feedback
**Created:** [June 14, 2019, 6:59am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/delete-my-account/120331 "2019-06-14T06:59:06Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@anon88550267](https://meta.discourse.org/u/anon88550267)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2019, 6:59am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/delete-my-account/120331/1 "2019-06-14T06:59:06Z")
I don’t have any need for this account anymore, so I’d like to delete it…however, turns out [I can’t do that myself](https://meta.discourse.org/t/a-user-can-self-delete-their-own-account/69293).
Can you please delete my account and remove or at least anonymize all personal information related to it?
Please confirm the successful account deletion to me.
\*\*\* Personal opinion\*\*\*
I strongly dislike sites that don’t have a “delete my account” button. Even if you have to anonymize some data, it’s no excuse to lock a user’s information in place like that. Every time this happens I feel betrayed and can’t help but put a note in my head to never sign up again…cause it’s such a pain to delete my account afterwards…
Other than that discourse is a really awesome product.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2019, 7:06am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/delete-my-account/120331/2 "2019-06-14T07:06:40Z")
If you have only one or two posts and your account is new, you can self delete.
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### Author:  [@anon88550267](https://meta.discourse.org/u/anon88550267)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2019, 7:15am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/delete-my-account/120331/3 "2019-06-14T07:15:18Z")
Hmm, the link in my first post said I could only do it if I had equal or less than 1 post. I searched for the “delete my account” button in Preferences-\>Account before I wrote this topic (2 topics posted at that time) but couldn’t find any such button.
So I created this topic, which is my third topic on this account. Also, I created this account a while ago (at least 6 months), so it’s not exactly _new_. According to your answer, this means I can’t self delete anymore, now that I have a total of 3 topics posted.
Could you please delete the account and anonymize personal information that you are not able to delete?
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2019, 7:25am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/delete-my-account/120331/4 "2019-06-14T07:25:46Z")
Yes of course, just wanted to be clear for future readers there is a way to delete accounts if they are new with only 1 or 2 posts.
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### Author:  [@riking](https://meta.discourse.org/u/riking)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2019, 11:21pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/delete-my-account/120331/5 "2019-06-14T23:21:45Z")
> [@anon88550267](#):
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> now that I have a total of 3 topics posted
For the record, I’m seeing 5 posts on your profile plus these two, so you were already well past the safety threshold.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [December 24, 2020, 10:35pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/delete-my-account/120331/6 "2020-12-24T22:35:55Z")