Some users want to be able to self-delete. Is it possible to allow this?

They can, until they make 2 posts/topics.

No it is hard coded. [image] New users with only 1 post can delete their account? Support FYI, here is the code for it: And The idea is, if they were active enough to have more than that, deleting their account would potentially render some topics (that they were involved in) useless.

See also: [image] Allow removing account info without content deletion Feature It may happen that users decide they don’t want an account on your Discourse, even after posting there for months or years. Problem: if you delete the user, all their content (posts, topics) disappears, leaving holes in conversations and removing other people’s replies to their topics. So what if we offered an anonymize account or remove account button that: sets all their profile information back to default new user state turns off all notifications picks a large random number and changes t…

Self service delete for users with lots of posts is not desirable, it can be very disruptive to forum members. They can simply contact a moderator who can take care of this if needed either by anonymizing or deleting.

How can a user self-delete?

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riking (Kane York) March 11, 2015, 10:33pm 5

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How can a user self-delete?

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