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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.

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.

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[–] chmod 2 points (+2|-0)

I don't buy it. Deleting an account should be a simple SQL command.

DELETE FROM table_users WHERE user="chmod";

Since your username is the key to all your activity just deleting the user should either delete everything, or it deletes the username but leaves all the activity in the DB without a key. Either way you should be able to delete your account.
[–] xyzzy 1 points (+1|-0)

It's not that easy in practice. You want to make sure your database has no NULL references. And maybe one wants to keep the votes to comments on your post kept on record as well.

Also, your personal data is still in the backups and the providers backups. Sometimes for a time defined by law. Same with logs.

So often there is just a disabled flag on a user. And that has basically the same problems.
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