How do you delete your account and all your questions?

You can’t delete your questions or your answers, just your profile. Click My Account on your profile and you’ll see the link to delete your account.

But more importantly, why?

As noted, your contributions to the site remain even after you delete your profile. I like that it is done this way, because I’m on other sites where there are now partial conversations and vanished threads that I truly miss. In a Q&A format, it is important to preserve the integrity of the posts. I put a lot of thought into my replies, and have poured my heart out in some. It wouldn’t be right to lose that because the OP becomes flaky. If you don’t want something read, don’t post it anywhere on the Internet.

You could always flag your own content for modding, but then that puts it in the hands of the mods to decide – it wouldn’t happen automagically.

It’s the same as if you comment to my Facebook Youtube, Yahoo answers account, it would be gone after I deleted my account. So there’s no way at all?

Nope. Your profile page deletes, but your posts remain.

Your posts ain’t never goin’ away. Just think of them as cyber-herpes.

I really need to come up with some new similes.

I might be wrong, but as far as I understand the questions and comments are the intellectual property of Fluther.

Maybe we should drop the “intellectual”?

@StupidGirl- Haha! :D

@oratio Nope, according to the terms you still own it, you just granted Fluther permission to use it for whatever they please.

I’m not sure whether those terms are legally binding though, they don’t look like they were composed by a lawyer or whatever. Since they allow anybody to reproduce your answers (that you still own) provided it includes attribution. I’d think that only the owner of content can decide that.

@Vincentt Ok. I wasn’t sure, but the paragraph Any content posted on this site may be used by Fluther for any purpose had me think so. Not sure what the difference is though.

@Qe2 – Why would you want to delete everything? You’ve barely been here and you want to leave already?

@oratio The difference is that they don’t own it. This has as a consequence that they e.g. can’t forbid you to use it elsewhere :)

It appears that @Qe2 got his answer.