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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Don't throw away all votes when a user is deleted
Currently, when a moderator deletes a user all of the user's votes are removed along with the user themselves. I was pretty surprised at this behaviour when I first heard about it, and I don't think ...
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How can I delete my account?
How can I delete my Stack Exchange account(s)? Also,
What happens to my content? Can I request it be deleted as well?
What if I'm suspended, rate-limited, or banned from posting questions or answers?
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Wiping votes on deletion of highly active accounts (-865 points on "User was removed")
Update: As MadScientist quite aptly pointed out this is also highly relevant:
Don't throw away all votes when a user is deleted at +523 votes, feature-request
I was greeted by this screen just ...
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A question should not be deleted by the user deletion algorithm if it has upvoted answers
As I found out earlier today, users who are deleted have their negatively-scored questions deleted, even if those questions have upvoted answers.
This goes against established conventions, for two ...
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Auto-delete/destroy 1 rep user when their post is deleted as spam
My common workflow when I see a blatant spam post by a 1 rep user is:
flag as spam (when I'm a mod this auto-deletes)
go to user profile
As a mod, I destroy the user. As a regular user I spam flag ...
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We've drastically simplified the user deletion process!
The short of the story here is that we have a brand new deletion process now live on all network sites, and it's simpler than it's ever been!
Why a new deletion process?
Well, the old one was pretty ...
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Further anonymize deleted accounts by changing the username in close/delete notices
When an account is deleted, the username in the user's posts and comments is changed to a generic user<userID>. But the username stays the same on close and delete notifications on posts the ...
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What is the difference between a deleted user and a "destroyed" user?
Prompted by Generic-ize a user's name when their account is destroyed, it appears there are two methods of disabling user accounts permanently: deleting and "destroying"
What are the differences ...
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How can I leave just one site?
I have accounts on several Stack Exchange sites. I do not wish to be removed from all of them, just one or two that I never really use and am no longer interested in. Is this possible? If so, how? If ...
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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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Massive user removal in one night?
I woke up this morning to find that I suffered a massive drop in reputation points across the network because lots of users had been removed.
What happened to those users? Was there a database ...
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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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When an account is deleted, don't auto delete its negatively scored posts on the meta site
Meta is different. Negatively scored questions are not always bad questions, and sometimes they have merit and draw good answers, especially discussions.
When an account (in the main site) is deleted,...
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Users should not be able to wipe their record by requesting account deletion and then recreating the account [duplicate]
Sometimes, suspended users request deletion, which is usually provided to them.
However, if they log in again with the same OpenID, a new profile is created (attached to the same network account), ...
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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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