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One can't delete their account on Hacker News either. Just sayin'. :p
by calebgilbert 13y ago
One can't delete their account on Hacker News either. Just sayin'. :p
- jkbyc 13y agoInteresting, I didn't know. Is there some good reason for it?
- TylerE 13y agoFrom a programming standpoint it adds a lot of complication (e.g. all of a sudden you'd have posts owned by NULL, and even if you deleted the posts, what about replies to those posts, etc).
- r0s 13y agoDrupal 7 lets the admin choose any option for that, remove all content, leave it as anonymous etc.
- thejosh 13y agoYeah, but the main Drupal website doesn't run on 7.
- jkbyc 13y agoWell, yes, but that's really just excuses. Forums often remove the account and profile information and leave the content created by the user intact. That's a good start in my opinion.
- TylerE 13y agoStill extra work. My time is not infinite, and I would rather spend it on things for people who actually use my site.
- jacquesm 13y agoTo help you decide your priorities some countries now mandate this by law. Eg. all of the EU.
- krapp 13y agoGiven the amount of effort startups put into getting accounts, correlating their social media accounts and harvesting user data, and run aggressive analytics, I find it a bit disheartening that the comparatively minimal effort necessary to let them leave is ever considered a waste of time. I shouldn't be considered a fly trapped in amber just because I happened to want to try a site out, particularly when so many require an email address or facebook account to sign up or sign in (and in some cases, to find out what it is the service does.) Hashing passwords is extra work too. Common courtesy towards users should count towards the minimal amount of work necessary for a site. It's not as if the users who want to leave, now want to stay because you want to hold on to their data.