Southernbb Posted September 22, 2021 Report Share Posted September 22, 2021 Is there a way to not have my screen name show up in google searches for this site? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 23, 2021 Report Share Posted September 23, 2021 I don't think so. The people who run the site are often very clear that the internet is not very private. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MartyHVL Posted September 23, 2021 Report Share Posted September 23, 2021 There is - but it depends so much on the platform etc the site is built on and how the site itself is built. I doubt very much the site owner has the time, money etc to do that without breaking other parts. Assume always that everything you say or do online can be seen somewhere - is probably the best approach. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators rawTOP Posted September 23, 2021 Administrators Report Share Posted September 23, 2021 Bottom line - no, that's not something we do. And even if we made your profile not show up in Google, it would still show up for all the pages where you do posts. What you can do is change your screen name in Preferences to something new that no one knows you by. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators drscorpio Posted September 25, 2021 Moderators Report Share Posted September 25, 2021 Moderator's Note: @ztheek, please see this thread regarding concerns about your name showing up in searched on Google. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shotsfired Posted September 25, 2021 Report Share Posted September 25, 2021 On 9/23/2021 at 11:50 AM, rawTOP said: Bottom line - no, that's not something we do. And even if we made your profile not show up in Google, it would still show up for all the pages where you do posts. What you can do is change your screen name in Preferences to something new that no one knows you by. That would be the obvious common sense solution. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
valldelxeno Posted September 25, 2021 Report Share Posted September 25, 2021 6 hours ago, Shotsfired said: That would be the obvious common sense solution. I think it's great that this site allows you to change your handle for this reason. On most sites you can't, and deleting accounts doesn't always remove everything (and, well, we can't delete our accounts here anyway iirc) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators drscorpio Posted October 1, 2021 Moderators Report Share Posted October 1, 2021 On 9/25/2021 at 6:22 PM, valldelxeno said: I think it's great that this site allows you to change your handle for this reason. On most sites you can't, and deleting accounts doesn't always remove everything (and, well, we can't delete our accounts here anyway iirc) Moderator's Note: You can request to have your account deleted, but it does not remove your posts. Your profile page goes away, and your name gets "Guest" added to the front of it. The details are here: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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