Is it possible to have a button to anonymize themselves and kind of “delete” their account. I know us mods and admins can do that, but is it possible to allow a user to self-anonymize themselves?
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The discussion revolves around allowing users to self-anonymize their accounts, a feature currently only available to moderators and admins. codergautam initiated the request, noting that while staff can anonymize users, users themselves cannot. ondrej confirmed it’s not currently possible. Support for the idea was voiced by khenmu and Decorbuz, who emphasized the value of giving users control over their data. Concerns were raised by Anubeion and darkpixlz about maintaining staff visibility into anonymized users, with darkpixlz clarifying that such visibility isn’t currently possible. Decorbuz questioned whether retaining staff access defeats the purpose of anonymization. riking clarified that in non-strict mode, staff action logs preserve the former username for GDPR compliance, ensuring deletion requests are properly fulfilled. Heliosurge suggested a manual workaround via mod team requests. Finally, JammyDodger linked to an open feature request on Meta Discourse: Users self-deleting/anonymizing. The community generally supports the idea, provided privacy and compliance safeguards are maintained.
This isn’t possible at the moment
Alright, no problem.
Don’t have anything useful to add, but wanted to say that I support the suggestion / request. 
So do I! It would be great if administrators could allow users to anonymize their own accounts.
As long as there is a way for admins and moderators to find out who the (anonymized) user is.
which is already possible I believe?
As long as we can disable this I’ll support it.
No it isn’t I dont think.
Doesn’t that kind of defeat the point? The current implementation of anonymization doesn’t allow that.
In non-strict mode, the staff action logs record the former username of the anonymized user.
(This is explicitly allowed under the GDPR as long as the records of the deletion request are only used to ensure you properly complied with the deletion request.)
An easy solution is to have the user send the mod tram a request and do it manually.
There’s an open Contribute > Feature topic on this here