Greetings mugen people, it's been a little while, but I'm looking forward enjoying some more of all of your fine work, and sharing some more of my own.  Happy mugenings!

How do I delete my account on this forum? 
I've been through the settings and the option doesn't even seem to exist.

No wonder this place has 62,239 members.

Do you want to start again with another account to have "privacy" (even though you're not showing your personal identity)?

What if this forum has 62,239 members?

I hope not having a "delete account" option like any decent forum is worth all the times this topic has been and will be created

No wonder this place has 62,239 members.

No wonder this place has 62,239 members.

45,000 of those members have 0 posts and no profile pic.
50,000 of those members have 2 or less posts.
55,000 have 10 or less posts.
58,000 have 50 or less posts.

As for people being allowed to delete their own accounts, delete their own posts, edit their own posts etc, I think taking that away from people is far above the call of forum moderation.

You're not considering those who have an account, don't post, but still log in regularly (or even just once in a while), and possibly use PMs. Or even those who don't use PMs but use the fact that they have an account to keep track of topics they like, and how many new threads there have been in such-and-such section.

Any kind of purge would definitely ONLY remove users who haven't actually logged in since a couple of years AND have no post at all. Even those who have only a few posts and haven't logged in years can't be removed, that'd just be shitty for anyone who thinks "hey, I wonder what happened to this place, I should check it out -- hey, where'd my account go ? I definitely had one..." even if you say "well they can just register again".

A extremely marginal fraction I'm sure.

how many users (out of 2000, not 61,000) do you think had any reason to suspect that number is actually 30 times higher than perhaps it should be?  And in those 13-14 years how many users do you think tried to start a project thinking they were in a community of 61,000 rather than 2,000 where if they knew, they might not have bothered?

Point:  There exists in reality a(n unobtainable) number of exactly how many hours of people's lives that "61,000" has wasted, and I don't think that's negligible.  Seeing that this issue clearly isn't going to come up often, I think it deserves at least some serious consideration.

H Mr. Ton! said, March 15, 2015, 01:29:29 am

how many users (out of 2000, not 61,000) do you think had any reason to suspect that number is actually 30 times higher than perhaps it should be?  And in those 13-14 years how many users do you think tried to start a project thinking they were in a community of 61,000 rather than 2,000 where if they knew, they might not have bothered?

A better question is why anyone would be bothered that the active community is 2000 members instead of 61000, and why should we care about those that think it matters.

H Mr. Ton! said, March 15, 2015, 01:29:29 am

Point:  There exists in reality a(n unobtainable) number of exactly how many hours of people's lives that "61,000" has wasted, and I don't think that's negligible.  Seeing that this issue clearly isn't going to come up often, I think it deserves at least some serious consideration.

Counter-point : the number of hours that were not wasted on the countless nutjobs that came here over the years and were not able to erase their records and start over with more of the same shit they did before is far greater than that number. This consideration trumps your consideration any day.

You're just plowing straight with your idea and you're not even listening to the various explanations that were presented to you, just deflecting and insisting that all of this is somewhat bad and needs to be changed. Where exactly do you think this is going ? We do hear your point, it's just that you're wrong.

DKDC, The answer to your first question is exactly the issue you try to counter with your "counter-point" (speaking of ignoring various explanations presented to you).  The obvious response to your counter point is that a user can't delete their account while they're banned from accessing it.  Any bans are held in place with their current level of effectiveness.  Not to mention the relevant point there was purging (sans banned), not account deletion.  "Plowing" accusation and counter-point countered and first question thus answered.

DKDC, I'm going to rephrase my counter point because you seem to have 2 concepts confused.  Enabling account deletion in no way would lower the 61,000 members to a more realistic number at all.  That should be obvious.  Your counter-point to my argument about the apparent number of users being a reason against account deletion is erroneous, either as a sidestep or a mistake.  Either way it's a non-sequitur.

The connection I was drawing between the two was that it might not be quite so high if account deletion had been an option the entire time.

I'm suggesting that number being high has real consequences.

Enabling account deletion is a separate point, and the second point you're confusing with the first, above.  I started this thread to ask how to delete my account, not argue that it should be possible.  I do think it should be possible but know that it's a separate issue from the one above, which I stand firm on.

I've already given what I think is a very sufficient reason. 

How is creating an alternate account made any more difficult by disabling account deletion?

Deleting their old account doesn't "cover their tracks" in any way, because their new account is in no way tied to their old one.

There's a workaround for that. Many users have done this by changing their password to gibberish and then log out.
...three months later those dumbshits make alt accounts just to pm an admin begging to reset their passwords. So yeah, no point in adding a new feature.

Also, fuck no, we're not letting anyone hide his fuck ups, even if it's only from the average user.

Fubini said, March 19, 2015, 05:32:46 pm

Also, fuck no, we're not letting anyone hide his fuck ups, even if it's only from the average user.

Then you should remove all users ability to edit or delete their own posts or change their display names, Cyan Paul (Fubini).