Why do you need that feature? There is another way to bypass this problem. If you want to vanish from this forum, just edit your posts or delete them by one by. As far as i know you can delete/edit your posts anytime without a time limit. It will take enormous time though.
That could take shitload of time , I mean imagine If the user has thousands of posts ? that will take him his whole life. Instead , developers could add like a simple button to remove all posts, that could work too. (by keeping posts where It's impossible to delete for security reasons , like Auctions section)
Since we see from time to time posts where people ask to get their accounts deleted , I guess It should be useful to implement this feature.
Deleting the account should not only remove it from forum database but also from Search engines (so he don't appear anymore) , and all user posts should be gone with it. (P.Ms shouldn't be touched as removing them could remove them from the other party inbox as well) .
I do not support this feature since there are too many scammers out there you could come in and scam people and can vanish just like that by deleting the account,so i do not think this is a good feature to add here
I agree, it would be much more of a problem than a "feature". It's hard enough as it is when trying to link addresses with user alt accounts.
Not only am i against it, but would also rather see deleting/editing of thrads/posts disabled if they're older than a week or so.
I guess you got a point but still, It's still possible to limit this feature to an amount of users (highly ranked users only) to reduce the abuse of the system.
This feature could also work like Facebook , when you disable account , It will still remain on the database , that way admins could recover it.
Idk really , I'm pretty sure something like this could become useful but probably the design I'm suggesting isn't that good.
