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Tagged with deleted-accounts status-completed
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Why has my account disappeared without any notifications or warnings?
I used to have an account with id user:12361700 with more than 12,000 points on Stack Overflow. Eight hours ago, I could log in without any problem, but this morning, without any prior warning nor ...
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"Delete profile" option is no longer present in one's user settings page
Not Meta. https://meta.stackexchange.com/help/deleting-account refers to
I am on the MAIN site. BUT I do not see "Delete profile"!
In case this was removed on purpose, can we:
Know the ...
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Could we have longer automatic suspensions for destroyed profiles, and better communication with these users?
Currently, when a user is destroyed for spamming or deleted as no longer welcome to participate, there's a short 14-day automatic suspension meant to keep them from using a newly-created profile with ...
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Help center page for deleting accounts still lists old criteria for deleting the account immediately without a 24-hour wait
For a long time, there's been a feature where users who've contributed very little activity on the site, who later request deletion of their account, have their account deleted immediately upon ...
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Change the way deleted users are shown in the Community Moderator Elections page
In the Community Moderator Elections page, when there is a former moderator who since deleted their account on the site, it's showing an image saying "Departed" instead of their flair. Example:
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Broken flair in election page, due to moderator having deleted his account
In the election page for the Philosophy site:
One image is broken (see red circle), because it refers to a moderator who has chosen to delete his account lately.
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Deleting your profile clears the spam flag, but not the implicit downvote
While testing an answer to What happens to pending flags when an account is deleted?, I discovered something else: it's possible to serially downvote a single post using only one account.
Steps to ...
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Prevent users from immediately deleting their accounts if they've made one post
I'm posting this following the discussion at Should we disallow users from immediately deleting their accounts if they've made one post?, which seems to be positive and generally in favor of doing ...
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Cannot move a deleted chat user's messages to trash due to a server 500 error
I have some messages I'd like to move to the chat moderation Trashcan. Some of them were left by a chat user who is now deleted. However I cannot move those messages: I can select them to go through ...
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If a user changed their username before their account is deleted, questions they voted to close show their old username at the time of closure [duplicate]
Imagine a user votes to close a question, and the question gets closed:
closed as off-topic by Ivo Robotnik, User2, User3, User4, User5
Then, "Ivo Robotnik" changes their username:
closed ...
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Can /u/<userID> redirect to /users/<userID> even for deleted users (for moderators)?
For a non-deleted user, following a link of the form <sitename>.stackexchange.com/u/<userID> will redirect to the user page <sitename>.stackexchange.com/users/<userID>. (Try it ...
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Don't delete negatively-scored posts by a deleted user on META [duplicate]
When a user's account is deleted (for any reason), all their negatively-scored posts are automatically deleted by the Community bot. From this post:
The system will automatically delete any ...
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Tapping on the “Close” button when viewing a deleted user doesn’t close the view
When I tap on a deleted user’s profile link in the app, it shows an error dialog, then keeps the view open with the loading indicator even after I press the close button on the dialog.
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Tapping a comment from a deleted user is reliably crashing the app
This comment reliably crashes the Android app v1.0.47 every time I tap it. I'm not sure it's the fact they're a deleted user, but every other comment is fine.
This is on a HTC One running Android 4.4....
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Help Center page about deleting an account isn't clear about steps required
I just had a user who I believe was confused by the deletion process. This is the current Help Center page on account deletion:
The way the item about Contacting the staff is listed, it could easily ...
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