I will look into that for handling future users and see what the viability is long term. My biggest concern is that entire posts do not necessarily need to be destroyed, usually it would be enough to edit out the specific data if we could also destroy the revision history. I absolutely understand why this isn’t something that is generally allowed.
I guess a my bigger question is, with GDPR being put through its paces and other nations jumping on board. Is this a very rare request or will this be something more and more common?
While I know preserving history is extremely important, I have to image there is a happy medium somewhere to allow for adherence to privacy while not completely breaking accountability. Perhaps some option to eradicate a post history that retains the revisions but replaces the actual content of the revisions with some customizable text like “Removed in adherence to right to forget request”. This would at least retain some historical data that the post had been modified, how many times and when. That is better than nothing while allowing for personal data to be eradicated completely. This certainly isn’t idea and may not even be a good option. I am just throwing it out there as a potential way of finding a middle ground.