So long as the account is permanently locked from ever participating again in any way, I think renaming is great. Otherwise it needs to be left as-is. But the

So long as the account is permanently locked from ever participating again in any way, I think renaming is great. Otherwise it needs to be left as-is. But the comments need to remained owned by the account that created them, so that we can consider the history of each commenter when reviewing their comments in the future. Merging them all into DELETED inappropriately coalesces those histories. I feel for those who are just now realizing that they can be located by their stylistic tendencies. It’s Dejanews all over again.