Do you how to always allow users to delete their own accounts? this helps with GDPR compliance. Can we use -1 or 0 for delete user max post age and delete user self max post count so that users can do this anytime?

Hi @RBoy , this is discussed in this topic [image] Option for user to delete themselves? Support The short version is that established accounts with a post history have to request deletion, because it can otherwise severely impact a community. If you were…

Users can always request to delete their accounts. Also, there is a Customization > Theme component that makes this more obvious. [image] Account Deletion Request Theme component information_source Summary Add Account Deletion Request dropdown to account …

So from reading the linked topics am I right that users cannot delete their own accounts after XXX days have passed or XXX posts has been posted by them? The only way is for them to manually send a request to the admin? @codinghorror I read your comments about this, it would be great to allow an op…

Isn’t that exactly what’s achieved by the methods discussed above?

[image] RBoy: Can we use -1 or 0 for delete user max post age and delete user self max post count so that users can do this anytime? Using -1 in delete user self max post count will disable the ability for users to self-delete, though you can set it really high to achieve a similar thing: […

Having actually done what @JammyDodger has said on one of my communities I strongly recommend against it unless you fully trust your users not to abuse it. We had to return the settings to the defaults after we kept having people get upset because they did not like the responses they were getting s…

[image] Claudia: the curious situation where the user can self-delete but staff can’t delete the account My first thought was “we should fix that” but then I realised that for someone it might actually be a desirable scenario :thinking: [image] Workflow

Ah, one of my favorite xkcd strips :slight_smile: And yeah, I can think of some situations where you would actually want users able to self-delete but limit staff to only have the option to anonymize the account.

[image] Claudia: Having actually done what @JammyDodger has said on one of my communities I strongly recommend against it unless you fully trust your users not to abuse it. Yeah, I can certainly imagine situations where this approach could get messy. Though if a forum admin felt strongly enou…

These options will only allow the user to delete their own posts. However for GDPR/CA compliance if a user wants to delete their own account, it’s forcing the admin to intervene. I would like to setup a process where in I would like the give the user the option to delete their own account and have d…

How to always allow users to delete their own accounts?

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Users can always request to delete their accounts.
Also, there is a Customization > Theme component that makes this more obvious.

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How to always allow users to delete their own accounts?

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