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Always preserve votes from users who are voluntarily removed
Refer here.
Summarily invalidating all votes from a user who has asked for their account to be removed is both incredibly disruptive and unnecessary. If a user asks to be removed from the site, they ...
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Comment votes can be easily gamed by users with the association bonus
When someone deletes an account, the upvotes they left on comments are not removed. When they create another account, they can upvote these comments once again.
This is a problem, as you can give a ...
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Should we be retaining a user's opinion in meta if they delete their account?
As confirmed by Shog9, votes may be retained on the meta sites, if a user deletes their profile for that Stack Exchange site. This originates from another post, where a user has brought up various ...
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Make searches for user:xxx work for deleted users as well
We can do searches for content by user with the syntax user:xxx where xxx equals the user number. However, this does not work with deleted users.
This could be useful for the same reasons the user-...
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Could we have two types of account deletion?
Relevant TL thread: https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/9390241#9390241
Related dupe: Delete softly when using the big stick. You may want to read that first, Andrew's given a much more ...
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The "User removed" message should link to a general explanation of this event
I found out today after losing 100 rep (probably one of the users of playorm who asks a lot of questions I imagine) that when a user is removed, I lose all the rep I gained from that user. It kinda ...
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Comments aren't updated after account removal
I've just noticed, if somebody deletes one of his Stack Exchange accounts, his username is replaced. That's pretty nice, but comments aren't updated and still reveal the original username "@username ...
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Delete old, unloved, users better
In Delete old, unloved, users I argued that we should delete unloved users because it's a fairly good way of getting rid of those whose sole purpose is spam, as per Is spam in the "about me" ...
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Destroying a user can leave a bounty open on a deleted question
This question is a bit of an odd case.
The user placed a bounty on it, then engaged in a rollback war culminating with a lock. He then requested his account to be deleted. It was. The question, which ...
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How can I search for posts by Deleted Users?
I want this option a lot. How? For example, moz got deleted in a SE site with a lot of excellent answers but user:moz returns /dev/null.
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Community shouldn't poke old questions asked by a user whose account has disappeared
The following topic was poked up in [javascript] by user -1, the Community:
How to overlay a small page on a html page?
However, it really doesn't make any sense to me to answer a question asked by ...
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