Timeline for Is it legal for Stack Exchange to decline post dissociation requests on non-deleted posts?
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| Oct 30, 2018 at 20:56 | vote | accept | Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog | ||
| Oct 30, 2018 at 20:56 | comment | added | Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog | That definitely makes sense. | |
| Oct 30, 2018 at 20:55 | comment | added | animuson StaffMod | @Sonic Think of it this way: we consider a deletion request to be an implied request to be disassociated from all content as well. Every user is deletes their profile requested disassociation too. If our attorney thought this method of disassociation for deleted users was that problematic, he probably would have campaigned to have that process changed long ago. ;) | |
| Oct 30, 2018 at 20:49 | comment | added | animuson StaffMod | @Sonic We're not going to get a solid answer out of any legal team on that. I kind of doubt there's much case law on the specifics of how we handle user deletion in regards to the CC license, so any answer would be pure speculation with a "we'd have to see what happens in court." If we explicitly told a user their option is to delete their profile and they insisted, we would delete it for them. That's their request being completed. We're not here to play games with abusive users trying to pull our leg. | |
| Oct 30, 2018 at 20:43 | comment | added | Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog | Also, is keeping the user code there still compliant with the license, however? What's the legal team's position on that? Finally, when you say "suggest", does this mean that if the user insists or cites the license, the dissociation will be carried out? | |
| Oct 30, 2018 at 20:42 | comment | added | animuson StaffMod | @Sonic I'll let you know if that situation ever actually happens. Even the first case is still very rare. Don't overestimate how many of these actually happen in the wild. We're talking about the 0.01% edge cases here. | |
| Oct 30, 2018 at 20:40 | comment | added | Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog | "no more posts attached"... How about if the user earned rep from suggested edits, that they'd like to keep? | |
| Oct 30, 2018 at 20:37 | history | answered | animusonStaffMod | CC BY-SA 4.0 |