When your over the hill

Glenn said:

How about deleting your avatar, signature, all info in your profile (aside from the stuff you can't delete), and turning off PMs, as well as putting "no longer a member" for your custom user title (and/or in your signature, if you want)? I think that would have the desired effect.

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Agree 100%

Dutch Baka said:

but I guess that is good for business, that you can show you have 18.000 members on your forum.

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I suspect that is more of the real reason than any technical considerations.

And its not about deleting regretted stuff, its just a thing a lot of people do, which is clean up after themselves when their finished on a forum for whatever reasons, not to delete posts but just to close up the account.

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Did you ever really get started ? Obviously it isn't like any of us chose to join Eupedia and even if it was against all of our original will and a moral issue not to want to be associated with that type of forum, with 2-3 (last count ) regular posters it isn't as if your name is going to come up often enough to really warrent this amount of consternation.

I wasn't aware that there was a feature of vbulletin that deleted a user account but preserved all their posts, other than banning. If the goal is to make it no longer accessible to the user, either change the user title and create a new random password, or simply request to be banned.

If the goal is indeed to remove all traces of one's presence from the board, I think it's a rather ridiculous request. If all users did this when they stopped posting here, there would be holes in threads, or no threads at all. Searching through the archived threads would be even more meaningless, as you could never find an entire discussion on any given topic. Like it or not, your posts are as much an integral part of the atmosphere and community here as, well, anyone else's. Giving users the ability to prune their own posts would be a destructive move.

Also, a bit of clarification: pruning is not synonymous with deleting an account; it simply removes posts by the user. There are many options in pruning, and it is done to existing accounts. However, it can be a very taxing process on the server, since you could be removing a large amount of data. As I said, it is a very rarely used tool.

I was mention if it was at all possible to delete accounts while maintaining the posts, even if under guest, gaijin, I apologise if I've given the impression of wanting to prune my posts clean.

Since its been mentioned a few times now the software doesnt allow this I reckon its case closed, delete what profile and account stuff you can, change name to no lnoger a user in the title bar, and change the password to something you wont remember.

thanks for the responses to this query everyone.

nurizeko said:

I was mention if it was at all possible to delete accounts while maintaining the posts, even if under guest, gaijin, I apologise if I've given the impression of wanting to prune my posts clean.
Since its been mentioned a few times now the software doesnt allow this I reckon its case closed, delete what profile and account stuff you can, change name to no lnoger a user in the title bar, and change the password to something you wont remember.
thanks for the responses to this query everyone.

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It's also technically possible to request a change to your user name to something no one else can figure out.