My theory is difficult to test but I want to believe that users unable to delete their accounts isn't from malicious intentions.
For those Phukers who have tried and failed at deleting their account; did you post or comment in disabled subverses?
My theory is that the deletion code can't run properly if you posted in subs that are now disabled.
Have no idea how a coder would fix that problem without reopening all the disabled subs.
I understand that everything on the internet is archived and that there's an outside search engine not associated with Putt archiving it all.
I also thought it was odd that users were okay with v/searchvoat; seems like something the tin hat club wouldn't agree with or want.
I wear a foil hat at all times, but I'm ok with collating publicly available data.
Malicious forces are doing it, might as well reap the benefits.
It's also a good reminder, or eye-opener, for people that the trail of personal info they leave is not harmless.
The solution is to staple your foil hat on so none of that info leaks in the first place.
Treat everything you type into the interwebs as being forever public.
I agree that the internet is never private. I don't believe PMs are private either.
Even with all that said, I still find it fucked up that you can't delete your account.
I don't see that it would be anything nefarious anyway.
Deleting accounts or posts does not delete the many mirrors that hold that stuff forever.
There is no 'taking it back' on the internet. All that does is remove it from easy reach.
Every post any of us ever made on Voat, since around the Fattening, has been archived.
Nothing you can do about it.