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I agree that posts shouldn't be deleted. But should the user be able to anonymize his posts when he deletes his account? Such that the username 'JohnDoe' is rep
by eik3_de 13y ago
I agree that posts shouldn't be deleted. But should the user be able to anonymize his posts when he deletes his account? Such that the username 'JohnDoe' is replaced with 'DeletedUser20140405.42'. IMO that doesn't destroy the readability of the conversation.
- baby 13y agoI see that sometimes in reddit, the pseudo says [deleted] but the text is still there. Sometimes the text is shown as [deleted] as well. I don't understand when and how the first occurrence happens.
- nolok 13y agoAccount marked deleted but not the post means the user account has been deleted. Both marked deleted means that specific post has been deleted (but not the user account).
- RexRollman 13y agoI don't see the point of that since other people often respond to posters with their name/username.
- ryandrake 13y agoReplacing the name with a unique id is not enough to anonymize the data. For example, the "anonymized" AOL search data release: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOL_search_data_leak#Notable_users http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOL_search_data_leak#Notable_us...
- rhizome 13y agoSince when has "readability" been a fatal flaw in any discussion medium? It simply doesn't matter, and there's no reason to apply distinct IDs over a collector or a simple piece of text like Reddit does.
- buro9 13y agoThat's where we're going with Microcosm. Deleting a user will nuke the account itself, and assign all content owned by that account to an anonymous/deleted account. The context is preserved and no-one else's data is affected, but we've removed all Googleable trace of the original account (the username and profile). The only remaining issue is whether a person made posts containing personal information (defined as being the same as personal data according to EU Data Protection laws... name, phone number, email, etc). But for that we'll always honour take-down requests even when the information is orphaned from an ownership record. PS: To the downvoters, I'd love to understand what part is objectionable.
- levosmetalo 13y ago> PS: To the downvoters, I'd love to understand what part is objectionable. I didn't downvote you before, but just did it now.I automatically downvote all comments complaining about downvotes unless the discussion topic is about downvoting and upvoting. I just think that it dilutes discussion.