How do I make my account private please?

Slumbershade

I can see by clicking that others are!
Thankyou.

Brie

account?  what account?

Slumbershade

MSE account of course!

GrumpyDil

In what way do you want to make it private? No one can see your personal details, all they can see is your username, posting history and last time on the site but none of that links back to you personally. 

Slumbershade

GrumpyDil said:

In what way do you want to make it private? No one can see your personal details, all they can see is your username, posting history and last time on the site but none of that links back to you personally. 

Sure, but some people are able to hide post history. So how do we do that, seems some may have special privilleges.

LightFlare

I think banned users profiles appear as though they are private

Sea_Shell

In a similar vein, can one ask the mods to delete whole threads?

Especially old ones, say over 5 years old?

Slumbershade

I doubt it, old posts are still often very helpful, and no forum staff will go through on a case by basis to check so many.

elsien

Slumbershade said:

GrumpyDil said:

In what way do you want to make it private? No one can see your personal details, all they can see is your username, posting history and last time on the site but none of that links back to you personally. 

Sure, but some people are able to hide post history. So how do we do that, seems some may have special privilleges.

As someone else said, probably posts that have been removed or posters PPRd.
Can’t really seen any benefit in having previous posts hidden - mine aren’t that exciting anyway - but if you post something and then regret it because you think you may have over shared something personal then you can ask the forum team to have posts/threads removed and they decide on an individual basis. 

Slumbershade

Is not hugely important, would have been preferrable is all.

BootsMullery

elsien said:

Slumbershade said:

GrumpyDil said:

In what way do you want to make it private? No one can see your personal details, all they can see is your username, posting history and last time on the site but none of that links back to you personally. 

Sure, but some people are able to hide post history. So how do we do that, seems some may have special privilleges.

.......... but if you post something and then regret it because you think you may have over shared something personal then you can ask the forum team to have posts/threads removed and they decide on an individual basis. 

As it says at the top of the board (if you haven't closed it):-

"Hello Forumite.

Did you know Forumites are able to edit and delete their own posts? Just hit the "•••" icon at the top right of your post and select ‘Edit’ or ‘Delete’. (You're not able to delete the first post in a thread yourself, but you can send a request to do so to forumteam@moneysavingexpert.com.)"