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Does "blocked" status only hide the user from non-admins? I experimentally tried blocking a user on my site, but I was still able to see it in the list of users (on the People page).
todofixthis ( 2012-07-28 10:43:14 -0500 )editdelete user from askbot?
What will happen if a user wants to delete his account?
I assume that he should send an email to the admin? But still, deleting the account should not imply that all his questions/answers also to be deleted since this is not helpful for the community.
So, what should be the solution? I see that through django console, you can delete users from the database, but all his questions/answers also are deleted.
Do you have any good ideas what should be the proper way?
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If we want to keep all the content of a user but not the user himself (which is a very good choice since his content might be valueable), I think an easy way is to just go to admin panel and change/delete few things about him, but not the actual user:
- Change his personal stuff, mainly username and email, so that he is not recognisable and does not receive any notifications. This can be done in
yoursite.com/admin/auth/user/. - Delete his login methons, so that he cannot login with this account anymore. This can be done in
yoursite.com/admin/django_authopenid/userassociation/- delete everything that refers to this user. - If your site supports uploaded avatars, delete also his avatar (if his has any). You can do this from here
yoursite.com/admin/avatar/avatar/ - Go to his profile and change his subscriptions to no mail, so that askbot will never again try to send an email to him.
- (if there is anything I forget, please add here).
This way you have pseudo-deleted him but the record in database is still there, all his content is there and he is not related to all these any more.
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I like the way StackExchange does this, actually. When a user is deleted, her posts remain and are attributed to her username, but her username only appears as plain text (not a hyperlink), and her profile can no longer be accessed (even if you know the URL).
I notice that for all the different statuses that Askbot has for user accounts, there is no "hidden" or "deleted" status.
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A really "delete" option is for German Askbot Installations a big need, is it possible to add a feature for users to delete themself in the profileview or so?. (Delete of all personal data like Realname, Mailaddress and so on, old postings are ok) It's a German Law. :(
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