How to remove someone from my profile completely?

[insidethestorm]

Hey I have a little problem. I recently drifted apart with one friend of mine, so I unsubscribed & declined the person's access to my journal. After banning the person, I can still see the person's accounts listed on my profiles "Also Access From" & "Also Subscribed From" lists (the person friended me earlier by using Open ID (Livejournal) & Dreamwidth accounts).

Is it possible to remove the accounts from my profile completely? I really would not like to contact and ask the person to defriend me & unsubscribe me manually, because we did not separate in good terms.

Is there some other way to do it?

Thank you :)

Comments

[trouble]

Hmm. Can you ban their open_id account? That may clear it.

[insidethestorm]

i have banned both open id and dreamwidth accounts by using this tool. the acounts are still listed on my profile. would admin console work better?

[trouble]

I'm actually not sure - it's not a problem I've encountered. It may be worth a try, though.

[insidethestorm]

I tried. When I tried to ban the person by using admin console, it said that the banning was success, however the person is still listed on my profile. The banning didn't work with the Open Id at all. I guess it's just my luck XD

[justhuman]

Generally speaking, no.

The idea of "subscription" is that any subscriber can follow public posts.

By giving you access, this person has allowed to you to see some subsection of their private posts. So in a sense, this has nothing to do with your account and everything to do with their account.

Other options to eliminate them from view would be to lock your posts or to rename and privately announce to the people you'd like to find you the new name.

[insidethestorm]

Aaah that explains it. I might have to think about renaming my account then *is thoughtful*

Thanks for clearing that out :)

[melannen]

If you're considering this, note that renaming with a rename token will automatically transfer all your subscribers to the new name; to clear your lists out you'll have to actually start a brand new account and manually transfer anything you want transferred.

[ninetydegrees]

I think you can actually decide not start anew, without any of your previous subscribers (see FAQ #213). However the FAQ also says: "
In both cases, all comments and community entries you made under your old username will be updated to show your new username, so renaming is not an effective way to completely divorce yourself from your old username."

Alternately...

[angel_negra]

You could always just change your profile preferences so that "subscribed from" and "access from" don't show up in your profile. You'll see them listed with (hidden) beside them, but no one else will see them.

Re: Alternately...

[insidethestorm]

i've done that already. lil things can bug me a lot and when something bugs me, it doesn't stop until i have managed to get rid of it completely XD

Re: Alternately...

[angel_negra]

Ah, gotcha. No worries. We all have little things that won't stop bugging us until we can fix it to our satisfaction. Good luck!

Re: Alternately...

[insidethestorm]

If you are as scrupulous & stubborn as me, those lil things can drive you nuts from time to time *headdesk* Anyways thanks :D

Re: Alternately...

[angel_negra]

Yeah, I've been there, and there are times when I wish I was one of those people who can just drop things that are bugging them and move on like it was nothing.

Re: Alternately...

[cellio]

If you're just trying to eliminate these journals from your own view of your profile page, you might be able to write a Greasemonkey script to take care of that. (I can't; I don't know how. But I've seen all sorts of clever things done this way, so it's probably possible.)

[foxfirefey]

Hmm, this kinda sounds like a bug--I thought banning people was supposed to remove them from those listings, full stop.

[yvi]

Yeah, I thought the same thing somehow.

[soulhollow]

Me too. It works on LJ.

[triadruid]

I think it works that way on LJ. Maybe DW just didn't import that (it was a later addition, in response to this sort of request, IIRC).