Deleting a users posts (with large post count+history)

[codinghorror (Jeff Atwood)]

@cookywook

Unfortunately the user has turned down the option to simply anonymise the account, so we’re having to do a full deletion.

If you are using the default licensing files included with Discourse, then under the creative commons license, the user doesn’t have the right to pull all their content. Anonymization is all that is guaranteed.

Allow removing account info without content deletion

There is an analog here for what we used to do with accounts on Stack Exchange and Creative Commons, too – you pull the username and keep the content as it belongs to the community, and removing it might take something of value from the commons. Note that Creative Commons is also the default for Discourse installs unless site operators specify differently in their ToS: 3) User Content License User contributions are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unp…