diff --git a/src/stores/OwnProfileStore.ts b/src/stores/OwnProfileStore.ts
index 45d8829e30..1aa761e1c4 100644
--- a/src/stores/OwnProfileStore.ts
+++ b/src/stores/OwnProfileStore.ts
@@ -111,8 +111,6 @@ export class OwnProfileStore extends AsyncStoreWithClient<IState> {
         await this.updateState({displayName: profileInfo.displayname, avatarUrl: profileInfo.avatar_url});
     };
 
-    // TSLint wants this to be a member, but we don't want that.
-    // tslint:disable-next-line
     private onStateEvents = throttle(async (ev: MatrixEvent) => {
         const myUserId = MatrixClientPeg.get().getUserId();
         if (ev.getType() === 'm.room.member' && ev.getSender() === myUserId && ev.getStateKey() === myUserId) {
diff --git a/tslint.json b/tslint.json
deleted file mode 100644
index fd99d9d228..0000000000
--- a/tslint.json
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,74 +0,0 @@
-{
-  "rules": {
-    "class-name": false,
-    "comment-format": [
-      true
-    ],
-    "curly": false,
-    "eofline": false,
-    "forin": false,
-    "indent": [
-      true,
-      "spaces"
-    ],
-    "label-position": true,
-    "max-line-length": false,
-    "member-access": false,
-    "member-ordering": [
-      true,
-      "static-after-instance",
-      "variables-before-functions"
-    ],
-    "no-arg": true,
-    "no-bitwise": false,
-    "no-console": false,
-    "no-construct": true,
-    "no-debugger": true,
-    "no-duplicate-variable": true,
-    "no-empty": false,
-    "no-eval": true,
-    "no-inferrable-types": true,
-    "no-shadowed-variable": true,
-    "no-string-literal": false,
-    "no-switch-case-fall-through": true,
-    "no-trailing-whitespace": true,
-    "no-unused-expression": true,
-    "no-use-before-declare": false,
-    "no-var-keyword": true,
-    "object-literal-sort-keys": false,
-    "one-line": [
-      true,
-      "check-open-brace",
-      "check-catch",
-      "check-else",
-      "check-whitespace"
-    ],
-    "quotemark": false,
-    "radix": true,
-    "semicolon": [
-      true,
-      "always",
-      "strict-bound-class-methods"
-    ],
-    "triple-equals": [],
-    "typedef-whitespace": [
-      true,
-      {
-        "call-signature": "nospace",
-        "index-signature": "nospace",
-        "parameter": "nospace",
-        "property-declaration": "nospace",
-        "variable-declaration": "nospace"
-      }
-    ],
-    "variable-name": false,
-    "whitespace": [
-      true,
-      "check-branch",
-      "check-decl",
-      "check-operator",
-      "check-separator",
-      "check-type"
-    ]
-  }
-}