Posted by roante on 2013-11-08 11:46:10

Extreme ragequit? :-)

Posted by mridcully on 2013-11-08 11:48:37

Extreme cravequit? :-)

Posted by paradocks on 2013-11-08 11:52:57

my wish is alyssa milano and that hasn't happened either

Posted by Verminardo on 2013-11-08 11:53:34

People, it is good custom on any site that you can delete your account if you so desire, for very good reasons. Even on Facebook you can, and the site has been rightly criticized for making it difficult. You are not being funny, you are just being dicks.

Posted by Etzel on 2013-11-08 12:10:13

I am in discussion with the god of this side at the moment, Mr Woodstock. May be he will change his mind.

I have never saw this before in ma entire life, that a game webside refuse the wish of one here customers to delet the Account.

Facebook did it. And i think the NSA would do it to if they get an request like this.

Etzel

Posted by Etzel on 2013-11-08 12:19:11

Mr. God Woodstock did not change his mind.

Fumbbl have his own meaning to handel personal data.

Posted by drunkagent on 2013-11-08 12:22:14

Facebook accounts cannot be deleted only deactivated! And the NSA would tell you to do one if you contacted them.

Posted by Verminardo on 2013-11-08 12:27:46

You are wrong, Facebook accounts can be deleted.

Privacy law grants a right to delete personal data, which is typically handled by deleting the account, but I guess if you removed email address and name and such and put the account to inactive you would be complying with your legal obligations.

Posted by cthol on 2013-11-08 12:36:58

with all due respect to various people above:

1) He's not a customer, it's a free site. He has not paid for anything.

2) None of his personal information is on his coach page.

3) Other teams and coaches have played against his teams, so they cannot be deleted. As someone said elsewhere, Etzel is part of the history of the site whether he likes it or not.

4) After a 6-0 loss I can't help but feel that the real reason behind this request is so that he can start again with a new account. Which is exactly why accounts are never deleted.

5) None of the information about teams etc could possibly be construed as personal data.

Posted by chimp2010 on 2013-11-08 14:16:54

Facebook is a site that contains all of your personal information, statuses, what you're doing, links to other peoples personal information etc...

Fumbbl is a site full of pixels that smash each other into an imaginary pitch. The site contains none of your personal information and as far as I know none of it is stored.

Deleting you're account would do more harm than good for the site (close run thing by the sound of it) as everything is linked to other coaches teams.

So in short... Just log off and don't come back of you don't want to play.

Posted by Christer on 2013-11-11 11:43:11

For the record, the only personal information recorded by FUMBBL is:

1. Your email address, which you have the ability to change by yourself
2. IP logs (used as part of the security system, and inherently in web access logs). It could be argued that the IP is not personal.
3. Session cookies, used to associate your account with your browser, although it's very questionable if this is actually personal. You can clear these in your browser(s) and the site won't recognize you anymore.

Effectively, an account delete involves the staff ensuring that the email address is purged and that the account password is reset to something inaccessable. This way, the original user can't reinstate the account.

Any content provided to the site (forum posts, blogs, teams, matches, etc) is not part of the account per se, and falls under the following section of the privacy policy, which Etzel very helpfully quoted to the staff when requesting this deletion of the account:

"Content or other data that you may have provided to us and that is not contained within your user account, such as posts that may appear within our forums, may continue to remain on our site at our discretion even though your user account is deleted."

That being said, a lot of that content is user-editable, and can be cleared by himself at his leisure. If someone has "personal information" in team or player names (although why you'd do that is beyond me), these can be changed by requesting it by the staff.

In closing, the terms of use and privacy policies for the site are admittedly boilerplate text from the CMS that is used as a foundation for the site. One funny thing I noticed reading it is that users are able to *request* an account delete, but there's nothing that actually says that the site will act on that request. I still do what I can to depersonalize accounts on request.

Posted by Wreckage on 2013-11-13 11:42:44

"People, it is good custom on any site that you can delete your account if you so desire, for very good reasons. Even on Facebook you can, and the site has been rightly criticized for making it difficult."

They are not making it difficult. It is impossible to delete an account.

As for the reasoning: The data created by the account for playing games is woven into a network of data, tying it with all the other accounts and deleting one would affect this data.

As for facebook: You can delete your account, wich means it will be invisible to you but they still have all the informations you gave them.