Please stop nuking entire threads when a user account is deleted

[Quadratic]

This forum contains decades of information which I and many others reference daily. I have learnt so much from the posts of people who wrote years ago.

Yet slowly this is being eroded. First with https://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=1962342#post1962342

Now this thread is gone https://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=1619723#post1619723

There are probably many others too. Some of this information remains via wayback/google cache, but not all of it.

[Swede]

It's up to each and every user to decide what to do and, sadly, in this case HolyWu deleted all his/hers posts and threads.

[VoodooFX]

That's OK only if they deleted own posts, but those threads contained the other users posts.

[StainlessS]

But it is their thread, and if 1st post removed, then no thread owner, and no question to answer.
(however, I dont like it either).

[Swede]

I too would like that any user wanting to 'anonymize' themself just wrote me a PM and I can delete them, resulting in all the posts left in place but written by 'Guest'.

[kasper93]

It's up to each and every user to decide what to do and, sadly, in this case HolyWu deleted all his/hers posts and threads.

It is kind of bad that one user can delete hundreds of posts and years of discussion. It is not my decision, but I think regular users shouldn't have this ability. Even deleting post that have be replied to is tricky. Generally it is not allowed for user to do so after a few minute timeout or when there is follow up to the thread.

One other example is this thread https://web.archive.org/web/20210902230010/http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=167428 13 pages and years of discussion. Not sure why it is gone, but well I don't like that threads can be gone just like that.

[lvqcl]

Don't post anything useful on this forum - problem solved.

[Swede]

Don't post like this. Thread closed.