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How do I quit?
Trickstar Started conversation Jun 30, 2003
Hi there,
the first thing I look up after registrating somewhere, if there's a possibility to close the account again. I really hate it, if there isn't. So the most important question missing in the FAQ is:
How do I quit my account?
thx for help
Trickstar
How do I quit?
Whisky Posted Jun 30, 2003
Firstly, welcome to h2g2... and I hope you enjoy yourself and never actually want to quit 
Secondly, there isn't actually a 'quit' button on h2g2... it doesn't cost you anything to post here, you don't get spammed because it belongs to the BBC, and you only visit when you want to, so there's not much point in having a quit button...
Plus, if your postings were to be deleted at any time it would make any conversations you were involved in look pretty strange (for example, I'd be answering a non-existant question 
)...
Having said that, the usual method of leaving the site is to clear any information from your personal space (which I notice you haven't filled in yet... If you do - you'll get a visit from a nice volunteer called an ACE who-ll show you around the place). Then, unsubscribe from any conversation you have taken part in (if you look at your personal space you'll find you are subscribed to this conversation). Then just don't post any more... the only trace of you would be the postings you'd made in the meantime.
Having said all that... very few people manage to escape this site anyway... it's very, very addictive
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Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) Posted Jun 30, 2003
What he said... 
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2legs - Hey, babe, take a walk on the wild side... Posted Jun 30, 2003
don't leave.
Please.
pretty please.
please stay.
please.
If you leave then a religion might be set up in honer of you.
We really don't need another, well, not at the moment. 
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Will Posted Jun 30, 2003
And then they'd need to make another catagory in the h2g2 researcher code...
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2legs - Hey, babe, take a walk on the wild side... Posted Jun 30, 2003
And then I'd have to run round London in the winter asking tourists if they were you.
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Crazy Man Posted Jun 30, 2003
...and I'd be the one to build the statue in the middle of your hometown
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2legs - Hey, babe, take a walk on the wild side... Posted Jun 30, 2003
And then someone would have to write the religious book for the new religion...
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Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) Posted Jun 30, 2003
Oh no, not again.
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2legs - Hey, babe, take a walk on the wild side... Posted Jun 30, 2003
I feel like a bowl of pertunias and a sperm whale.
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Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) Posted Jun 30, 2003
Aren't MacDonalds doing that as a breakfast special? 
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2legs - Hey, babe, take a walk on the wild side... Posted Jun 30, 2003
Its like I've walked onto the set of a very bad movie I feel a little like a Military accadmy today; bits of me keep passing out Oh no, not again.
*splat*
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2legs - Hey, babe, take a walk on the wild side... Posted Jun 30, 2003
*prays and sprys mrrly that resurchers never quit or leave 
*sob 
frrly so it be so yea, sing we mrrly spry thus
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Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) Posted Jun 30, 2003
Yes, that's what this reminds me of. Deliverance.
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Whisky Posted Jul 1, 2003
If this thread hasn't frightened the poor guy away, then nothing will...
I'd just like to state that not all of the researchers using this site are quiet as nuts as the unrepresentative sample who have posted here 
Some of us are quite normal!
Isn't that right Harvey?
**continues to converse with a 6-foot tall, invisible, white rabbit**
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- 1: Trickstar (Jun 30, 2003)
- 2: Whisky (Jun 30, 2003)
- 3: Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) (Jun 30, 2003)
- 4: 2legs - Hey, babe, take a walk on the wild side... (Jun 30, 2003)
- 5: Will (Jun 30, 2003)
- 6: 2legs - Hey, babe, take a walk on the wild side... (Jun 30, 2003)
- 7: Crazy Man (Jun 30, 2003)
- 8: 2legs - Hey, babe, take a walk on the wild side... (Jun 30, 2003)
- 9: Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) (Jun 30, 2003)
- 10: a girl called Ben (Jun 30, 2003)
- 11: 2legs - Hey, babe, take a walk on the wild side... (Jun 30, 2003)
- 12: Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) (Jun 30, 2003)
- 13: 2legs - Hey, babe, take a walk on the wild side... (Jun 30, 2003)
- 14: Will (Jun 30, 2003)
- 15: 2legs - Hey, babe, take a walk on the wild side... (Jun 30, 2003)
- 16: Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) (Jun 30, 2003)
- 17: 2legs - Hey, babe, take a walk on the wild side... (Jun 30, 2003)
- 18: GTBacchus (Jun 30, 2003)
- 19: *Deja Vu* (Jul 1, 2003)
- 20: Whisky (Jul 1, 2003)
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