# How can I delete my account on discuss.elastic.co
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-can-i-delete-my-account-on-discuss-elastic-co/205557
**Category:** Meta Elastic
**Created:** [October 28, 2019, 9:49pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-can-i-delete-my-account-on-discuss-elastic-co/205557 "2019-10-28T21:49:54Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@anon83966306](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/anon83966306)
#### Post date: [October 28, 2019, 9:49pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-can-i-delete-my-account-on-discuss-elastic-co/205557/1 "2019-10-28T21:49:54Z")
How do I delete my account on this message board?
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [October 28, 2019, 9:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-can-i-delete-my-account-on-discuss-elastic-co/205557/2 "2019-10-28T21:53:04Z")
If that's something you really want to do, we can make it happen.
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### Author:  [@anon83966306](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/anon83966306)
#### Post date: [October 28, 2019, 9:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-can-i-delete-my-account-on-discuss-elastic-co/205557/3 "2019-10-28T21:56:05Z")
yes please do, i find the tools interesting but am working on a different problem set
ty
- james
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [October 28, 2019, 10:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-can-i-delete-my-account-on-discuss-elastic-co/205557/4 "2019-10-28T22:12:17Z")
I'm not clear why you'd want to delete your account though, why not just leave it?
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### Author:  [@anon83966306](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/anon83966306)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2019, 1:30am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-can-i-delete-my-account-on-discuss-elastic-co/205557/5 "2019-10-29T01:30:28Z")
1] i would like to
2] i would like to limit the information that can be scraped on me as a topic
3] so that you don`t retain the data
What are the steps to delete my account on [discuss.elastic.co](http://discuss.elastic.co) ?
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2019, 2:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-can-i-delete-my-account-on-discuss-elastic-co/205557/6 "2019-10-29T02:46:15Z")
All done 🙂
And just to answer those numbered points in the last post; While the threads and posts still exist, the account and any identifiable information are gone. [This page](https://meta.discourse.org/t/anonymizing-users-in-discourse/86929) explains how.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [November 26, 2019, 2:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-can-i-delete-my-account-on-discuss-elastic-co/205557/7 "2019-11-26T02:46:28Z")
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