I'm now known as John Smith, student at Brookdale Community College with an associates degree, aspiring to be an "Assistant Dog Catcher" (yes, that was one of the options in their auto-complete field) in Lodi, CA.

There was no option to delete the account, but after clicking "Deactivate", it still said that my account was now deleted, so who knows.

Edit: And now I received 2 emails from them that my recent submissions (filling in that form?) violated community rules.

Oh dear, I hope they don’t delete your account for violating their community guidelines!

I got the same modal, but I opened up DevTools, deleted the modal and was able to then click into my account settings and delete my account.

Careful now, some particularly dimwitted prosecutor might charge you with unlawful access to a computer system.

We need to throw away current cybercrime laws and start over with people who actually know what access means.

Same, but instead of devtools I just found a longer URL in my history to get past it.

This is very very illegal, depending on jurisdiction.

I reloaded until I was able to tap twice fast enough to reach the profile page, then "delete"/"deactivate" the account.

I haven't logged in in years and I don't think I did much back then. Given everything I've read here, I think it might be safer just to let my account lie.

Same. Thought I must not have been signed in and was getting pushed into a signup flow or something, so I cleared cookies and got the same behavior once I logged in.

Forcing you to give them your real name before allowing you to use the site when logged in is incredibly scummy behavior I hope they are punished richly for.

Was it possible to use a fake name?

Always use a fake name, like we taught kids to do on the internet in the 1990s!

I used the name “Nah Thanks” and selected that I was unemployed to pass on giving any legitimate information.

It is

i did the same and was so, so infuriated by that.

My name is Joe Blow and my job is a Glassdoor Bankruptcy Advocate located in Antarctica.

Nice to meet you Joe Blow. My name is John Jacobs, Vandelay Industries.