The discussion revolves around notifying admins when a deleted user rejoins with the same email address. Loki wants to delete a user’s account and posts while maintaining the ability to track if the user rejoins. pfaffman suggests creating a “bad_user” account with the deleted email, but this approach would prevent rejoining. zogstrip recommends using webhooks to track email sign-ins, which Loki finds promising but requires technical setup. zogstrip provides a link to a topic on setting up webhooks, but notes that an external system is needed to process the webhook payload. The discussion concludes with mtan agreeing to investigate further and pfaffman suggesting posting in the Marketplace for external help.
We have a user who has asked that their account be deleted including specifically requesting that all their posts be deleted. We don’t want to anonymize since the posts would still be there even though no longer attributed to them. We realize that there will be holes in conversations, but we’re okay with that.
However, we would like to be notified if the user were to later re-join with the same email even if they use a different username. (We realize there’s no way to know if the same person rejoins with a different email.)
Is there any way to be notified if a previously deleted user rejoins?
I think that you could create a bad_user user and add the old email address to it. Then if someone tried to sign in with that email address it would be an already existing user.
Hey Rick thanks for bringing this up. Let me find time later this week to dig deeper. We don’t have anyone in house who can change this quickly or access the user database to manually delete