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> I’d bet (a small amount of) money they have no ability to delete accounts at all Probably not. I bet that goes for so very many organizations. It is far easi
by throwaway55554 6y ago
> I’d bet (a small amount of) money they have no ability to delete accounts at all
Probably not. I bet that goes for so very many organizations. It is far easier to reinstate an accidentally (user) deleted account if it is merely marked as deleted than if it were truly deleted.
Now, how NYT is handling this is ... well, it's bad.
- calvinmorrison 6y agoprobably the fact that a good portion account deletes are users doing something they want to undo in the next few days. Soft deletes make this much easier, then going back and deleting anything older than X days is simpler than expensive customer support tickets of "how do i login it says my account is deleted"