Forum .LRN Q&A: Re: deleting a user

6: Re: deleting a user (response to 1)

Posted by Jade Rubick on 05/23/03 06:48 PM

I think what we should do is have a general facility for deleting users that does this:

- we have a dummy user named Deleted User, who has no rights to do anything
- when a user is nuked, all objects owned by that user are transfered to the Deleted User
- then the user can be cleanly nuked.

Just my suggestion. That way, all postings by that user are kept, but we can cleanly remove the user.

There could be a log file for this, so that a record of which objects were transfered to the deleted user could be maintained.

7: Re: deleting a user (response to 6)

Posted by Andrew Piskorski on 05/24/03 08:20 PM

Jade, this subject comes up from time to time, but I don't remember anyone ever giving a good reason for why you should ever truly nuke a user from the system, rather than simply deleting, banning, disabling, or whatever that user.

Yes, nuking the user can always be done in some way (hack some SQL), either by also nuking all the user's content or by transferring that content to some bogus "nuked user" placeholder. But why? Is there ever a good reason to do so? (There may well be, I just don't remember any...)