Why is ‘delete account’ not offered automatically to all users at all times?

[RBoy]

Adding my 2 cents to this feature request. The decision as to whether users should be allowed to delete their own accounts (irrespective of how long they’ve been around etc) should ultimately lie with the site administrator. The responsible thing to do would be to allow the administrator to allow or disallow account deletion (or anonymization) to comply with regulations and company policies. It shouldn’t be forced upon them by discourse (or made to do hoops to achieve this basic feature).

Cross linking, 2 options that are sorely required in discourse to comply with regulations and company policy:

How to always allow users to delete their own accounts?

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?