Wizards of the Coast - please delete my account and profile

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#1

janco

Nov 10, 2009 10:11:36

I would like my account and profile deleted, but every time I try it does not seem to work. It asks me "security questions", and the answers I provide do not seem to work.


Please just delete me.


Thanks.


Janco

#2

zombie_babies

Nov 10, 2009 10:16:54

Nobody escapes the White Doom!  Nobody, see?!

#3

Seeker95

Nov 10, 2009 10:49:57

A letter to customer service is more likely to reach someone who can fulfill your request than a request on the member forums.

#4

MrCelsius

Nov 10, 2009 11:23:02

     This reminds me of that time I was dissatisfied with the food in a restaurant so I demanded that they dismantle the booth I was sitting at instead of just getting up, leaving, and choosing not to return.

#5

Webster

Nov 12, 2009 11:54:48
You should contact Customer Service.
wizards.custhelp.com and click on the Email Us tab.
#6

whitebaron

Nov 13, 2009 11:52:39

     This reminds me of that time I was dissatisfied with the food in a restaurant so I demanded that they dismantle the booth I was sitting at instead of just getting up, leaving, and choosing not to return.



the difference, of course, is in the details. while you are relatively anonymous to your restaurant, wotc has a lot of personal data, data which they have acknowledged to be yours.

if you don't want your data to be around here anymore, you're absolutely within your rights to demand that they remove them.
#7

drnick

Nov 13, 2009 17:08:50
In effect, it's like going to a restaurant and then demanding loudly that they destory all camera footage as well as the credit card receipt because you didn't like the wallpaper.

EDIT - But of course White Baron is right. It's your data. I just think the idea of removing someone's account from a forum is kind of rediculous.
#8

MrCelsius

Nov 14, 2009 3:48:53
if you don't want your data to be around here anymore, you're absolutely within your rights to demand that they remove them.


     To demand, yes.  Well within your rights.  One has no right to have that demand met, of course.  I am not a lawyer, but I understand that going out in public constitutes permission to be photographed by anyone with a camera.  They can't publish without your consent, of course (Or can they?  Paparazzi must have some special out that lets them print pics of $Skanky_Starlet's $Sexual_Organ, I guess.), but it's essentially the same.  By entering a venue one leaves a data footprint of oneself, be it a forum account or credit card data, and it's not unreasonable to find a demand to have that footprint stricken... well, unreasonable.

     Other rights as may be, I shall enjoy my right to find and describe the original post as laughable at best and pathetically attention-seeking at worst.
#9

whitebaron

Nov 14, 2009 5:18:00
indeed, not a lawyer. you have that right, and a written note from a lawyer usually works wonders in removing such content from any site.

this, of course, only includes: personal information, like name (not nicknames or other aliases), email or creditcard information. The only legal keep such data against the will of a user is IF you need it for any business transaction - i.e. you still have a valid contract, have to receive payments, etc.

As for paparazzis: this is a delicate issue, best not touched upon in the scope of this thread. but it should suffice to say that for people of "public interest" (whatever this constitutes) there are special laws within the privacy laws of almost every country.

btw: i find your post pathetic, too. users with complaints should not be looked down upon, especially not from people who might want to be treated better than that. just because someone is not at savvy at something, does not make them people of second class.
#10

Seeker95

Nov 14, 2009 6:54:08
btw: i find your post pathetic, too. users with complaints should not be looked down upon, especially not from people who might want to be treated better than that. just because someone is not at savvy at something, does not make them people of second class.

Would this also mean that someone without a lawyer's background (legal savvy) should not be treated as second class?

I believe "I find your post pathetic" says quite a bit more about you than about the post on which you were commenting.
#11

drnick

Nov 14, 2009 12:50:25
Oh snap.
wizards.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/wizards.cfg...

ORC_Sinister

Nov 25, 2009 21:06:19

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