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lookin4 wrote (edited )

How about to steer a middle course?

  1. Raddle's function not only as a platform for exchange, discuss, circularize things itself but also as a link sharing archive is important, the author however not anywhere near
  2. for admins there is not much more work to do when someone deletes their account
  3. as you said initial posts or answers in conversation-threads remain understandable and can also be referred to way better (e.g. quoting, linking)
  4. and for someone decided to leave Raddle it could be enough satisfaction that they are no longer recognizable by certain patterns publicly visible on the front-end, which might also apply to the data that exists in the back-end like in logfiles or else.

a few notes on 1) when I want to find a post again I remember the forum it was posted in, the title or contents of the post - not the author. when we start to care less for who said what we counteract informal hierarchies 2) except for initial programming work that may be done by them resulting in a script(?) finding every occurrence of the old username and replace it with always the same "reservoir-account" which will exist as any other user but is only passive waiting to become "feeded" and is not used to create original postings nor having any other activity.

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