Hey, so we might have a situation in which we want to completely erase every trace of a user from the database. I won’t go into details as it’s sensitive but also due to GDPR we might have to prove that we don’t hold any copy of the user information on our system. There are some parts that I think …

Could you just delete them? u=User.find_by_username('byebye') posts=Post.where(user_id: u.id) and then call PostDestroyer on all of the posts. (I don’t remember exactly how to do that offhand.) If you really want to replace their posts with “deleted by…” then you’d do something like posts.update…

I don’t know, that’s why I asked :slight_smile: I’ll try on a stage environment in the next couple days. Thanks for now Jay, always a treasure! :heart: I’d rather edit because I don’t want topics being destroyed just because someone is leaving while maybe others have contributes with interesting d…

[изображение] Crius: we might have to prove that we don’t hold any copy of the user information on our system If you have a user request for deletion of all their data, that won’t necessarily include all of their posts/replies as you probably know anonymization can be enough for GDPR given th…

Indeed after first user is anonymized simply merge future anonymized users into the first one.

[изображение] Dan DeMontmorency: simply merge future anonymized users That would in effect make all anonymized accounts read just as being a “deleted user,” as with other platforms like discord will just display that. I wouldn’t recommend always doing that but is one option that can protect …

That is quite often impossible, especially with users with a lot of replies. I noticed that the merge users functionalities fail quite often when I try to merge a users with thousands of messages even with just a new one (use case being: old user returning and not having the credential, verifying w…

That sounds like need to file a bug report

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