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Timeline for Changes to user account deletion

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Dec 4, 2018 at 0:00 history tweeted twitter.com/AskUbuntu
Sep 2, 2017 at 14:02 comment added user12753 @Tim As I thought. So no reason why you should not be able to undelete your account later then; it's technically easy. Deleting an account can just set a "do not allow user to login" bit which admin can clear if someone changes their mind (and still has access to their original email address).
Sep 2, 2017 at 10:28 comment added Tim @DrEval All posts are retained, they are just no longer owned by the user in question.
Aug 31, 2017 at 15:55 comment added user12753 I was blinded by your high reputation!
Aug 31, 2017 at 15:54 comment added Mark Kirby If you have questions, you need to go to the mse post linked above and ask the developers. I am just a user and cannot speak for them on what they think is best. @DrEval
Aug 31, 2017 at 15:51 comment added user12753 What happens when an account is deleted? If the questions/answers/comments a user has posted remain on the site after deletion then you're just stopping that user from logging in again; it doesn't sound like something that would be tricky to reverse. If you can delete everything...well, there's an argument for putting on the signup page that you cannot do this as your posts are public forever (unless edited manually, subject to rules about that) and that removing, say, a question would lose valuable input from people answering it.
Aug 27, 2017 at 5:47 history edited muru CC BY-SA 3.0
users wanting to delete probably won't be interested in reading the entire history of SE
Aug 26, 2017 at 15:07 history edited ZannaMod CC BY-SA 3.0
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Aug 26, 2017 at 14:47 history asked Mark Kirby CC BY-SA 3.0