joe_bloggs

Is this common practise, to not provide an option to delete your account except by contacting customer service? Personally I'm not aware of any other product being so sneaky in making it hard for users to quit.

Facebook was one of the first companies that started this trend of burying the "delete account" feature deep inside and making it hard to find. But by removing the option altogether, Quora seems to have raised the sneakiness bar much higher.

More discussions here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4382214

"Err vicariously"

Loved that. Subtle, yet deep!

Equally f'd up is the fact that you cannot delete your Quora account. Seriously. Try searching for any such option in your settings page. They only have a "deactivate" option, and once you deactivate, you can reactivate anytime by just logging in again :)

Found this quora post:

http://www.quora.com/Quora-product/How-do-I-delete-my-Quora-...

According to a Quora engineer, it seems you can delete your account by emailing privacy@quora.com

Wow! This certainly sounds like something EFF (https://www.eff.org/) should try and do something about.

"We’re being paid partly in cool. If you take away the cool parts of the job, you might as well go make more money elsewhere"

Loved this quote!

What are some of the other benefits, other than elasticity or on-demand ness, and not having to spend a huge amount upfront?

Thanks for the red robin tip!

its like rain on your wedding day

There should be a 3rd option: Ads on Facebook? Really?? (Adblock-effect)

Yep! What have the Romans ever done for us?

Here's a screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/KYdUb.png

This happens consistently for any Facebook notification email or Deal email. Also, all the links in the email are blocked.

Incidentally all the Facebook notifications and deal emails I receive on my gmail inbox have this warning message in red: "Warning: This message may not be from whom it claims to be. Beware of following any links in it or of providing the sender with any personal information. Learn more" and all the links are blocked.

This is either a really dumb spam filter or a cheap anti-competitive ploy by Google. (I doubt if it could be the former.)