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    You'd be putting most of the strain on the community mods rather than the staff or the gen AI providers. There's probably better ways to remove all your content from the network than that if it came to it - but its probably better to have a considered reaction, backing up your posts and such, than threatening to delete all your posts and such. I'd note defacement/deletion dosn't actually remove SE or potentially others access to your post either. Commented May 7, 2024 at 14:47
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    Vandalism is usually reversed. If you no longer want to be associated with the content, there are better paths to go. Disassociating the content from your account, for example. Or deleting the account altogether, which will dissociate everything at once. Commented May 7, 2024 at 14:55
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    Porting the content to Codidact would actually be viable, although mass imports from SE were attempted and didn't really end up well. A proposal for a new community would have to be made in this case, but once that is done, there are ways to import SE content. You could pick your best posts to serve as example questions for the new community. Although since this is getting off-topic, a separate question about it on the appropriate Codidact meta would be the best place to continue that discussion. Commented May 7, 2024 at 14:58
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    @Mast I don't care about dissociation, I want my contributions removed so they can't be misused. Commented May 7, 2024 at 18:46
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    @henning -- of note the Terms of service give Stack Overflow license to use your post content, even if they are deleted. Commented May 7, 2024 at 19:41
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    @henning It might cause volunteer moderators some pain if they want to preserve your answers for the site's users; it will not affect the company and you've already licensed the content. Commented May 8, 2024 at 18:03
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    @henning It's possible you have: meta.stackexchange.com/a/399674/401068 Commented May 8, 2024 at 21:38
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    @SilentCloud Yes, that's exactly what I suggest. Do put in a link to the original on SEI, to comply with the attribution requirement. Commented May 10, 2024 at 7:35
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    @S.L.Barthisoncodidact.com: No such link is required for your own posts, since you still own them and can distribute however and wherever you want. You shouldn't be copying other peoples' content to other Q&A sites (if they want to display it under CC BY-SA, fine, but you can't paste it into the textbox intended for your own contributions) Commented May 10, 2024 at 15:43