Reference: Allow the users to deactivate or delete their accounts - #2 by ondrej - support - Discourse Meta

Hey @anon9140225 – I guess what you’re asking of @moderators is to change these settings to make it easier for people to self delete accounts? I’ve gone ahead and changed these settings. [Screen Shot 2022-02-16 at 10.10.23 AM] So, a user can self-delete if they have 14 or less posts, and if thei…

Usually what happens in regards to things I really like (say TW5) goes like this. I check out what is happening lately → I convince myself that checking in/working on a project a couple of times a day is not unhealthy → I end up obsessing over it → I need to checkout/deactivate the account → Rinse a…

Ah, I see. You can turn off all email notifications if you want to unsubscribe / pause getting notified. Here’s some writing on that: [image] How to turn off or modify email notifications? Meta @EricShulman asks: I greatly prefer to just check the online di…

When someone deletes their accounts, what happens to all their messages? Do they stay? Do they stay but are identified as “deleted user” ? If a person deletes their account but comes back, do the messages become theirs again?

If a person self-deletes, messages are deleted. No, deleted messages are at some point purged from the database, so signing up again won’t make them come back.

[image] anon9140225: Nevertheless it is a good idea to discuss within community what are reasonable numbers. When you unsubscribed on GG, were your old messages deleted, or ??

If you want to leave a Google Group, you will only be asked if you are sure. You get an Info, that you will loose access to data that has been closed. … That’s all. My global google account settings don’t show data about GG. It only shows data about Youtube and GMail, which I would be able to delet…

[image] Mark_S: When you unsubscribed on GG, were your old messages deleted, or ?? GG has a Terms of service link at the “bottom left” of the TiddlyWiki group page. Depending on where you are different rules apply to your account. For my account Google Ireland’s TOS apply. In the TOS there i…

What about the replies to posts from a self-deleted user? Just trying to understand what the implications are. Among other things, some of the tiddlywiki links are links to forum threads. If those threads no longer exist, or the key post is missing, then they are somewhat less useful.

Yes, which is exactly why not automatically letting people delete posts in shared spaces is tricky. I read a bit on the Mozilla Discourse forum about how they anonymize the account rather than deleting it.

Allow users to delete their forum account