anon65426961:
One risk to consider is also if there is ever unauthorized access to an account, that would be a problem if account is permanently deleted and cannot be recovered by someone other than the authorized individual for that account.
This may be a reason why they have some safeguards in place and full account deletion must be requested first and then reviewed first to make sure it is valid.
I’m not sure that makes sense. Though I think the reasons why have been covered pretty well in the previous posts and linked topics if you have a read back through.
RBoy:
Thanks for clarifying that. Would it possible to include this option as a configurable option in the admin settings UI? It would be super helpful have 2 options available for the site admins:
Always allow users to delete their accounts and all posts permanently
Always allow users to delete their accounts and anonymize all posts
It would be very valuable add for compliance as ease to maintenance. Are these hard to implement?
There are a couple of feature
Hi,
Please include a standard feature for the user to delete his forum account. Also, changing the username becomes impossible after a certain number of messages were posted, as far as I know.
This, combined, makes it impossible for the user to not leave digital traces. In many countries, it is legally granted to people to request the erasure of their personal data. For example, here is EU regulation.
Just received this oh so gracious “request” from a user:
Delete my forum account, **** … you have not given me any means to anonymize or delete the account, and there is no way to contact the moderators on your variant of this crap forum software. Ensure none of my personal data remains there.
As a global admin, I can (and did) anonymize the account. And then I went to my own preferences to figure out what this person could have done for him/herself. And found… nothing.
Did we forget to tog…
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