Privacy on these forums

[mr_hopp]

Your personal information (including your email address) will not be visible to the general public, but whatever username you use will be public. So if you use a similar username on other forums or any other places where your identity is known and you want your identity to remain private, then choose a username that is not used in other places that identifies you.

Occasionally I get requests from people who would like to delete their accounts. For the good of the community, it's best to keep all content available on the forums since a lot of content is part of ongoing conversations and threads. If one person's account is deleted, then all of their contributions that run through other conversations are all lost and the context is therefore lost, too. The conversations you have here, while helping you now, will also help others who come to these forums in the future to read and feel supported. 

With all that being said ... 

• If your username is used in other forums or might identify you, then send a PM to @mr_hopp with the new username you would like to use. (Please make it unique since a lot of shorter usernames are already taken.)
• If there are concerns that you might have shared something in a post that might identify you and anonymity is important to you, send me an edited version of the post(s) you would like to change and I can do that for you. 
• If you would like to delete your account altogether so you don't get updates from member posts and messages, then as a last resort we can delete your account, but your posts will stay (either still attributed to your username or an anonymized username).

Thank you for helping to make this a safe and supportive community.