Questions tagged [deleted-accounts]
For questions about user accounts that have been deleted ("user was removed" in your reputation history) or the process of that deletion.
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"Posts by deleted user" page should allow sorting by last activity
One common use of the "Posts by deleted user" page is investigating vandalism by a deleted user (generally part of a rage-quit), either edits or deletions. If the user doesn't have a lot of ...
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Mark all flags against a post as helpful, when the post author’s account is destroyed
A spammer made several posts on Computer Science. I went straight to destroy the account. The posts had both spam flags and custom flags. After destroying the account, at least the custom flags ...
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Streamlining deletion of quality block evasion accounts
A quality block system is now in place across the network, where users who ask a series of poorly-received questions (or leave a string of inappropriate answers) are temporarily blocked from posting ...
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Deleted user's posts do not seem to count towards auto protection
I expected this post to be automatically protected by Community after three answers were deleted:
However, that was not the case. Upon further investigation and some help from other mods , it ...
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Cannot swap synonyms if creator is gone ("anon")
On German Language, where I am a moderator, I wanted to swap the tag synonym determiner → determiners (and then delete the plural variant) in the tag-synonyms interface. When I try to do that, I ...
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First posts escape review when new user self-deletes account
For example, see this post on Academia (deleted now.) It's clearly intended to be a comment, but was posted as an answer. The content of the post is:
+1 to @ff524♦'s comment-I know that you have ...
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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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Bounty notices are attributed to no one when the owner is deleted
In some cases where a user offers a bounty and then is deleted, it seems Community becomes the owner of the bounty. If the bounty was started with a bounty notice, the revision history no longer has ...
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Reinstate the prior prevention against users deleting their accounts immediately if they've cast multiple votes
To provide context (again):
For a long while, there's been a feature where users who request deletion of their accounts and meet certain criteria for low activity (currently, not having posted on the ...
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Can we make it easier to see a deleted user's deleted posts?
Moderators can see a list of posts from a deleted user, which is very useful for cleaning up two kinds of problems:
rage-quits, where we might want to undelete some of those
users with a pattern of ...
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How can I prevent my questions from being removed by roomba (Stack Exchange's automated question deletion system) after a user was removed?
The removal of a user might result in the loss of upvotes on some of my questions, which might in turn result in roomba* (Stack Exchange's automated question deletion system) deleting some of my ...
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Replies to deleted account's answers appear in Inbox
I had my Gaming account deleted a while back (for reasons I won't go into here).
Earlier today, my inbox notified me about a comment to one of my answers on Gaming.
I assume this is a bug.
Edit: A ...
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Mark flags as handled when moderator destroys spam account
I awoke to find four flags on spam posts on Mathematica. I handled this directly, by destroying the user account from which they originated. I note that in the Moderator Tools -- History panel it ...
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Are votes preserved on meta sites when an active user is deleted?
Recently on one of my SE sites, a user who was a highly active voter (over 1000 votes on each of main and meta) deleted their account. As expected, there was no accompanying loss of rep for other ...
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Deleted users who created a synonym are listed as "anon" in the tag synonyms list
While browsing the list of tag synonyms on Mathematics Meta I came across the synonym [vote-to-close] -> [closing] in which the creator is listed as "anon" — the username is not ...
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