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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:

1. 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/.
2. 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.
3. 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/
4. Go to his profile and change his subscriptions to no mail, so that askbot will never again try to send an email to him.
5. (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.