Allows account deletion while preserving previous contributions or activity.

Some websites do delete the user account, but the user’s activity remains visible. Not everyone wants a break or plans to return , some users simply want to delete their account permanently . At the same time, would prefer their past activity to remain unaffected. for such people deactivation is not an option . I believe MDL should offer a feature that allows account deletion while preserving previous contributions or activity.

thanks

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Elisheva

1 day ago

What's your goal, Aster?

What you're describing reminds me of a friend who cured himself of his Twitter habit by changing his password to a long string of nonsense and not letting his password manager store it :D - everything he'd written remained but he no longer had access to it.

Would that be close enough to meet your needs here?

ASTER

1 day ago

My only goal is to disconnect my social and communication accounts from this site without affecting any of my past activity.

Think of it this way:
"I want my work to live on without an owner."

I requested this not because of any unhealthy addiction.
And even if I did have a serious addiction, your suggestion wouldn't be a reliable solution because anyone can simply use the "Forgot Password" option to regain access. That doesn't truly break the connection.

Elisheva

1 day ago

ASTER:
disconnect my social and communication accounts

It's not possible to remove social accounts oneself then? That's a different and very specific request. Someone with access to the members' database could probably delete the info for you. Otherwise block MDL on the social accounts' side.

For email, make a throw away account somewhere free like Outlook and switch your MDL to that.

ASTER:
"I want my work to live on without an owner."

Remove your avatar, profile info, whatever else you want disappeared. Change your user and display names to something not associated with yourself and leave.

It will have the same effect without asking the devs for what could be a major retrofit of the site code.

And if you're very certain that none of this will work or meet your needs, make a specific request to admins asking for help disconnecting your socials. They'll need you to have an email but it doesn't have to be one you'll continue using.

ASTER

1 day ago

It's not my job to think what a developer is or isn't capable of. Whether they can do it or not is something they can analyze and figure out themselves. I simply suggested an idea I didn’t put anyone at gunpoint to make it happen.