So a user was deleted in the forum quite recently, but they are now known as system. The post was originally made by a deleted user, but as of right now the system user took that post. I’m sure a deleted user made this topic and got a lot of replies. Topic: https://forum.creative.gimkit.com/t/any-…

I vaguely remember that a user getting deleted on AMC had posts deleted. When the posts were restored (manually), they became the @system ’s posts.

Huh, that may be an automatic thing that ownership for topics started by a user account that has been deleted is changed to the system account.

No, that is not an automated thing. Have you asked on that forum what may have happened @twofoursixeight ? They may have chosen to do that manually.

No, I don’t think so, and also any topics not related to what the forum is about there aren’t really allowed there. All I know is that this is the only edit on the history. No transfer ownership thing, no nothing. Just a TL3 adding a tag. [IMG_2987]

Normally deleting a user would delete all of their posts and topics. It’s one of the main reasons we encourage anonymisation as an alternative so as not to leave holes in conversations, or wipe out other people’s contributions.

Giving that a quick test, it seems like that could be a possibility. :+1: Undeleting a deleted user’s post is an unusual choice though, and leaving it as @system is a little unintuitive. :thinking: I’m not sure what a good alternative would be though in that circumstance.

Posts from the system user?

Support

Heliosurge (Dan DeMontmorency) November 4, 2023, 10:30pm 8

Could maybe copy an idea from reddit and create a user called ‘deleted’ and change ownership?

Not really ideal either. Or a user with a bot name. NullBot.

Topic		Replies	Views
Topic keeps getting deleted Bug	21	2370	July 16, 2020
What may cause the auto-deletion of a topic? Support	4	539	October 5, 2020
Bulk change ownership of topics Support	4	613	March 11, 2019
System user is automatically deleted a user Support	3	704	June 18, 2018
Replacing System created topics by Real-Person posts Support	1	116	December 16, 2024

Posts from the system user?

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