If a forum member deletes their own account...

[Beverly]

Are the posts created by that forum member deleted if they also delete their own account? Or, are they not able to login to the forum anymore? Just wondering as it could be devastating to a forum if a long time member with thousands of posts deleted his account and all those posts suddenly disappeared.

 

[Scotty123]

Yes all there posts will be deleted that is why on all my forums i may it so they can't and only can in extreme circumstances.

 

[CM30]

Depends on the forum software. Sometimes it deletes the posts, sometimes it just leaves the poster as some guest with the same name as the deleted member.

 

[jacktheking]

I am quite sure that MyBB wont delete the post if I delete the user from the ACP. Few months back I have some spammer on my forums and I delete them instead of pruning of their posts. I had a hard time deleting all the guest posts after that; the posts will stay there as guest.

 

[Shawn Gossman]

I don't enable the option to allow this.

Instead I instruct the member to add a bogus email address and I will change their username to something else. That way, they can come back if they want to in the future without needing to create another account.

 

[Sage12]

Yep, all there posts and topics will be deleted when a user deletes their account.

 

[nolvorite]

I think what happens is if his account gets deleted is all his posts remain but his username just appears as a guest on it

 

[Teg]

With Proboards, if a user deletes their account, their posts stay towards the post count and on the board. Not really sure about other hosts.

 

[RH-Calvin]

I think it depends on the forum algorithm. Some may have delete option of all the posts once the account is deleted while some may have the posts there itself by the name of guest contribute.

 

[Forces of Steel]

Only the administrators and moderators are allowed to delete accounts, but we will never honor such requests; once registered, your account stays with us forever.

 

[Joshua Farrell]

On the forum software I use, on the administrative side, the administrator can choose if they want to delete the users and leave the posts, or delete both the user and the posts in one click. At last check, when the user deletes himself, the posts stay.

 

[Moonface]

ZetaBoards doesn't allow users to delete their own accounts, so I don't have to worry about someone deleting themselves. However, even then, deleting a member doesn't remove their posts on ZetaBoards nor InvisionFree.

 

[Soapbox]

Really depends on how you build it. You can make it hard for people to withdraw content, plus you can give them an option to withdraw their name from their content and thus 'extract' themselves from it. These are more custom built functions I believe, but it can be done.

 

[Fait]

With forumotion when I used them A few years back the member name is changed to Guest, So it really depends on forum hosts\Software.