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If you proceed with a disassociation request, the fact that you're the author will not only be removed from the public display, but also from the internal system records. This means that all reputation you gained/lost from the post (including bounties) will be reversed and the events no longer visible in your reputation log, and future votes and bounty awards on the post will no longer earn you any reputation. Additionally, badges you earned from the post may be revoked.

If you would like to have your name disassociated from one of your posts, you can request we do so by clicking on the Contact link at the bottom of the respective page. Your username will no longer be linked and will be shown as "anon" on the post. For answers, your name will also be removed from all comments under that answer. For questions, your name will be removed from the question, all answers, and all comments for the entire question. Note that comments that were moved to chat will not have your name removed, as those chat messages are technically separate from the post - see the last bullet in Your name will likely still appear on it in other places above.

How will disassociation requests be treated based on the post's license?

If you proceed with a dissociation request, the fact that you're the author will not only be removed from the public display, but also from the internal system records. This means that all reputation you gained/lost from the post (including bounties) will be reversed and the events no longer visible in your reputation log, and future votes and bounty awards on the post will no longer earn you any reputation. Additionally, badges you earned from the post may be revoked.

If you would like to have your name dissociated from one of your posts, you can request we do so by clicking on the Contact link at the bottom of the respective page. Your username will no longer be linked and will be shown as "anon" on the post. For answers, your name will also be removed from all comments under that answer. For questions, your name will be removed from the question, all answers, and all comments for the entire question. Note that comments that were moved to chat will not have your name removed, as those chat messages are technically separate from the post - see the last bullet in Your name will likely still appear on it in other places above.

How will dissociation requests be treated based on the post's license?

• Our content gets cached by many sources beyond our control, including web scrapers. Two large sources would include Google and the Wayback Machine. These sources will still have cached copies of the page as it existed with your name attached to the content.
• We regularly publish data dumps of all visible content on our sites. This is historical content, and we cannot modify previous data dumps to also remove your name in those places because we no longer have control of them once they are published.
• Some users will just remember who originally posted something, and we can't prevent them sharing that information with others.
• You will still appear as the owner of the post in the Data Explorer until it gets updated again at the end of the week.
• The content of oneboxed chat messages is calculated at the time a message is posted and cached indefinitely. This means that if you, someone else, or the system (e.g., the Feeds user) has posted a oneboxed link to your content previously, these previous oneboxes will continue to contain your name.
• If comments on your post have been moved to chat, these comments will become chat messages attached to your chat profile, detached from your post. Having your name removed from a post where you posted comments that were moved to chat will not remove your name from those chat messages.

• Our content gets cached by many sources beyond our control, including web scrapers. Two large sources would include Bing and the Wayback Machine. These sources will still have cached copies of the page as it existed with your name attached to the content.
• We regularly publish data dumps of all visible content on our sites. This is historical content, and we cannot modify previous data dumps to also remove your name in those places because we no longer have control of them once they are published.
• Some users will just remember who originally posted something, and we can't prevent them sharing that information with others.
• You will still appear as the owner of the post in the Data Explorer until it gets updated again at the end of the week.
• The content of oneboxed chat messages is calculated at the time a message is posted and cached indefinitely. This means that if you, someone else, or the system (e.g., the Feeds user) has posted a oneboxed link to your content previously, these previous oneboxes will continue to contain your name.
• If comments on your post have been moved to chat, these comments will become chat messages attached to your chat profile, detached from your post. Having your name removed from a post where you posted comments that were moved to chat will not remove your name from those chat messages.

• Our content gets cached by a great many sources, including web scrapers. Two large sources would include Google and the Wayback Machine. These sources will still have cached copies of the page as it existed with your name attached to the content.
• We publish data dumps of all the visible content on our sites. This is historical content, and we cannot modify previous data dumps to also remove your name in those places because we no longer have control of them once they are published.
• Some users will just remember who originally posted something, and we can't prevent them sharing that information with others.
• You will still appear as the owner of the post in the Data Explorer until it gets updated again at the end of the week.

If you would like to have your name disassociated from one of your posts, you can request we do so by clicking on the Contact link at the bottom of the respective page. Your username will no longer be linked and will be shown as "anon" on the post. For answers, your name will also be removed from all comments under that answer. For questions, your name will be removed from the question, all answers, and all comments for the entire question.

• Our content gets cached by many sources beyond our control, including web scrapers. Two large sources would include Google and the Wayback Machine. These sources will still have cached copies of the page as it existed with your name attached to the content.
• We regularly publish data dumps of all visible content on our sites. This is historical content, and we cannot modify previous data dumps to also remove your name in those places because we no longer have control of them once they are published.
• Some users will just remember who originally posted something, and we can't prevent them sharing that information with others.
• You will still appear as the owner of the post in the Data Explorer until it gets updated again at the end of the week.
• The content of oneboxed chat messages is calculated at the time a message is posted and cached indefinitely. This means that if you, someone else, or the system (e.g., the Feeds user) has posted a oneboxed link to your content previously, these previous oneboxes will continue to contain your name.
• If comments on your post have been moved to chat, these comments will become chat messages attached to your chat profile, detached from your post. Having your name removed from a post where you posted comments that were moved to chat will not remove your name from those chat messages.

If you would like to have your name disassociated from one of your posts, you can request we do so by clicking on the Contact link at the bottom of the respective page. Your username will no longer be linked and will be shown as "anon" on the post. For answers, your name will also be removed from all comments under that answer. For questions, your name will be removed from the question, all answers, and all comments for the entire question. Note that comments that were moved to chat will not have your name removed, as those chat messages are technically separate from the post - see the last bullet in Your name will likely still appear on it in other places above.