# Shouldn't users be able to delete their accounts whenever they want? **URL:** \ **Category:** Feature\ **Created:** [January 21, 2022, 9:14pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/shouldnt-users-be-able-to-delete-their-accounts-whenever-they-want/215601 "2022-01-21T21:14:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 7
**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2022, 5:01am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/shouldnt-users-be-able-to-delete-their-accounts-whenever-they-want/215601/7 "2022-01-22T05:01:00Z")
You have the right to your content and can download it any time from your user profile page. But you _don’t_ have the right to ruin the conversation for everyone else by forcefully removing your content and rendering the conversations unintelligible for all future readers. - If you’re a new user with 2 posts or less, you can auto-delete your account at any time. - If you don’t have too many posts, you can ask the staff for deletion and they can probably oblige you. This should be a call made by the staff. - If you have a _lot_ of posts, you can ask the staff for anonymization. This removes all your identifying information (username, full name, etc) but leaves the posts intact. I guess the implied request here is to allow users to anonymize themselves at will. I could support that as a site setting… --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/shouldnt-users-be-able-to-delete-their-accounts-whenever-they-want/215601)._