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If we cancel our account in fluther our are questions will still be seen in the Web?

Asked by f4a (601points) August 16th, 2011

I saw my questions and answers when i searched it in Yahoo or Google. How can this be removed?

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f4a's avatar

why so?

Aethelflaed's avatar

Yes, this is a public forum owned by Andrew and Ben, not your own personal and private blog.

f4a's avatar

but how come you see it in search engines?

harple's avatar

@fish4answers Your answers/questions that you gave were valid contributions to the community on here, as were the responses others gave to your questions, or the questions to which you gave answers. All the questions and answers on here are findable through search engines – and many people find Fluther through a random google search for something (I did). As @Aethelflaed says, the content on here is public, not private. To suddenly hide your contribution on here would take away from the site, take away from the community. When you have made your contribution, you accept that you gave it willingly and it is there to be made of whatever it is made of. As in real life, but of course, this being the internet, it is present ad infinitum.

Sarcasm's avatar

Disabling your account does not delete all of the questions and answers you have posted. They will remain on the site unless otherwise removed. And thus, they will still show up in Google results.

Hibernate's avatar

Disabling your account doesn’t mean all your contribution to the site gets deleted too.

marinelife's avatar

You’re out of luck. Your Q&As live forever. See the site Terms and Conditions.

“Copyright information:

* Any content posted on this site may be used by Fluther for any purpose.”

erichw1504's avatar

This is a public site, so any content you post is available to anyone on the web.

XOIIO's avatar

Pretty much anything online is out there forever, no mate what you do. There’s always a backup or a copy.

SpatzieLover's avatar

Your questions were no longer owned by you once you agreed to the terms of this site when you joined here.

andrew's avatar

@SpatzieLover That’s technically not true. You still own your content (meaning that you can do anything you want with your words, etc)—you just grant Fluther the ability to use your content as well (like put a bunch of answers to a song, or a book, or a silent 3-act Brechtian street performance).

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