# How do you unregister?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-unregister/89371>\
**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [October 24, 2001, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-unregister/89371 "2001-10-24T19:58:44Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![ozonebaby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/eb8c5e/32.png) [@ozonebaby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ozonebaby)\
**Post date:** [October 24, 2001, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-unregister/89371/1 "2001-10-24T19:58:44Z")

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I really don’t want to be registered here anymore (not that there is anything wrong with the site or the people). So I was wondering, how do I unregister?

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**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\
**Post date:** [October 24, 2001, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-unregister/89371/2 "2001-10-24T20:14:08Z")

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email **Lynn Bodoni** or **TubaDiva** and ask them to remove your posting priveleges.

of course, you can self unregister by simply stop posting.

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**Author:** ![barflyer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/dc4da7/32.png) [@barflyer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/barflyer)\
**Post date:** [October 25, 2001, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-unregister/89371/3 "2001-10-25T05:14:19Z")

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If you’re worried about privacy, push the profile button and remove any personal data, web page link, turn off the display of your email and change the password. Also set the option “don’t allow mods to email me”. That hasn’t been used much so far, just for major board announcements, but if you are no longer posting, you won’t even want those messages.

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**Author:** ![barflyer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/dc4da7/32.png) [@barflyer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/barflyer)\
**Post date:** [October 25, 2001, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-unregister/89371/4 "2001-10-25T05:15:37Z")

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That is, the profile button at the top of the page, not the one under your post.

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**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\
**Post date:** [October 25, 2001, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-unregister/89371/5 "2001-10-25T18:59:24Z")

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> That hasn’t been used much so far, just for major board announcements, but if you are no longer posting, you won’t even want those messages.

In fact, it’s been used a total of twice in the history of the board. Both times it was because the board had been cracked, and there was a possibility that passwords had been compromised.

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**Author:** ![John\_Carter\_of\_Mars](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/2bfe46/32.png) [@John\_Carter\_of\_Mars](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Carter_of_Mars)\
**Post date:** [October 26, 2001, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-unregister/89371/6 "2001-10-26T02:02:31Z")

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Gonna’ miss ya’ **da’ cook**. You have posted some fun stuff.