Submitted by An_Old_Big_Tree in meta (edited )
They don’t actually exist in a complete way. All that’s been done before is all the posts and comments (one by one) and the user bio are deleted, and the username and password of the user are changed. Though the retired account is not accessible to anyone except an admin, there is currently no way I know of to delete personal messages, which would be the last substantive remains of any account.
(it would be great if someone who knows how to code could fix this problem. Giving admins a “delete account” button that does all the work would be fantastic. Probably better would be giving the option to users. The only problem there is that trolls would delete shared accounts, so it might need to be a removable option)
Unless the other admins are willing to do the work, I’m also going to say that I’m not really interested in deleting other people’s comments and posts individually whenever they ask for an account deletion. So unless the admins say so, I think a change to the ToS is on the horizon.
(some people have asked me recently to delete their accounts, I will still do it for those people, insofar as it’s actually possible)
Thoughts/comments welcome.
ziq wrote
Let them delete their own friggin comments. I wasted so many hours of my life deleting people's comments for them.