Hello, I’m new here and hope I’ve chosen the right category. Since the update to v2. 4. 0 it is possible for every user to delete his own threads. I don’t think that’s good. Is it possible to set somewhere that nobody but the moderators and administrators can delete complete threads? Anyone should…

From personal experience, I’ve seen that they’re only able to delete their own topics it doesn’t have any replies to it; which I feel is fine. It’s a user’s discretion to initially post the topic and show the content to others on the forum. The same goes for posts. If a topic has people actively re…

Thank you very much for your answer. That the user can only delete the topic if there is no answer to it was not known to me. I just tried it. As soon as there is a reply, the topic can only be deleted by a moderator or administrator. I think that’s good. Thank you so much for the clarification. B…

[image] ValdikSS: the user deleted his account I don’t think a user is able to delete his own account.. only admins can - and even there is the recommendation to anonymize a user to prevent the situation you just described.

User registered and posted several messages. I moved some messages from one topic to a new one (offtopic/discussion). Message from the user from #1 was the first one, so he’s a “topic starter”. People discuss things in this new topic, 80+ messages. After several days, the user deletes his account. …

[image] ValdikSS: He can do that if the account is registered recently. Hmm, a user should not be able to delete the account after he/she has posted . But this is a different issue than the OP from this topic, maybe have this moved to a new topic.

[image] MarcP: But this is a different issue than the OP from this topic, maybe have this moved to a new topic. Nope. When I was trying to reproduce the issue, I successfully created a topic using fresh registered account, replied to the topic from different accounts, and then deleted the acc…

All right, I think I got it. Here’s the steps to reproduce the bug. Have a relatively old account (several days), with several posts and one topic Delete all your messages manually Wait until “delete removed posts after” timeout (24 hours by default) Now you have one post - the topic top post. Yo…

Check your settings in /admin/site_settings/category/users These are the default settings shown below. As noted at the bottom, you can set the last value to -1 to disable self-deletion of user accounts. If that’s too strong of a solution, you can lower the maximum number of days delete user max pos…

delete user self max post count = 0 should disallow deleting the user if this account has created a topic with replies, since top post can’t be deleted. Why is it = 1 by default I wonder?

Prevent users from deleting Topics themselves?

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ValdikSS September 18, 2021, 5:24pm 4

This is [partially] not true as of 2.8.0.beta6: the user deleted his account and the topic with 70+ replies became deleted as well, for everyone.

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Prevent users from deleting Topics themselves?

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