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Reclaiming you content if you no longer have an SE account

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It's not the end of the world if this is not possible, but I would like to reclaim my content. The problem is, I no longer have an SE account of any kind. I asked them to delete my main account because I felt I could no longer subscribe to the code of conduct.

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Deleting your SE account removed all association with you from your posts. If you happen to remember what your user ID was on SE, it's just possible that the Data Explorer might have kept that ID associated with them, which would let me compile a list of posts that you wrote, but I don't know that for certain. If you don't remember the ID, I'm afraid you're out of luck - I have no way of identifying the posts you should have attached to your account here.

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Mark Baker‭ wrote over 4 years ago
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If my ID was user16226, then that's it. Otherwise, it is gone.

Monica Cellio‭ wrote over 4 years ago
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I believe we can validate Mark's user number from this post, which cites (and links to) a book that he wrote.

ArtOfCode‭ wrote over 4 years ago
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Should be done, @MarkBaker - SEDE apparently keeps that "user16226" in the username field, which was enough.

Mark Baker‭ wrote over 4 years ago
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Seems to have worked, @ArtofCode. Thanks!

Galastel‭ wrote about 4 years ago · edited about 4 years ago
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Perhaps we could add a mention of this to the "Claiming Your Stuff" section of the [Welcome post] (https://writing.codidact.com/questions/39219). Mark wasn't the only user who had his account deleted since September.

ArtOfCode‭ wrote about 4 years ago
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@Galastel I'm holding off doing that - doing things this way is a heavily manual process that takes a good hour of my time; Mark's case was a relatively easy one and given his relatively prolific history, it was worth doing. For those with just a few posts, it's not worth the time it'd take to do.