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Can I delete my Yahoo! Answers account?
Without also deleting my accounts on other Yahoo! stuff like mail and Flickr?
2 Answers
- ?Lv 78 years agoFavorite Answer
You really can't. Only Yahoo can delete a YA account however, you could do this: Click your avatar, delete all your contacts click edit my info, delete the info in your profile including your personal avatar if you had one, set everything to private and , uncheck to receive ims or emails, click save don't return to the site.Your questions and answers remain on the site they are the property of Yahoo.
it does not affect your email account, it remains active.
An alternative would be to completely close all your Yahoo accounts.
Go below, follow the prompts.
- ?Lv 78 years ago
You can't just close your answers account it is a part of your yahoo account.
If you no longer want to use your Answers account, you can "hibernate" it:
* remove your Contacts * remove your avatar * change the name to ? or a few dots
* turn off all notifications and emails * set all settings to private/don't share
* delete any questions or answers that are open * then just stop using it
None of this will stop your questions and answers being visible, either through a Yahoo or Google search.
You will keep getting points if old answers get voted as BA.
You will keep getting notices of this (or of violations, if old content is reported) but you can set up your mail to direct these to the trash folder.
