i thought anon was a real guy who made 1000 alts
rb1?
Anon is rb1s mentor
4chan reference
Deactivating your account usually happens when you want to stop being associated with it, so they become “anonymous” to prevent any identity from being shown
It’s much easier to anonymize an account than to delete it, since deleting an account means deleting all of its posts which is quite a heavy task
Probably obvious
So does this mean that any user who asked for account deletion could pretty much get it back? (If helped from a forum-mod)
Or can they just log back on it like nothing happened
I’m gonna ask the mods to delete my account in 10 years, with the rate I’m going the mods will be incapacitated for months, in which time I will commit the ultimate treason…
mentioning a moderation action publicly
I’m not sure if an anonymized/deactivated account can still be logged into, but I doubt it since some forumers who’ve had their accounts anonymized have had to create new accounts instead of reactivating their old ones
Someone at discourse at some point decided to implement it that way.
And it’s a good implementation. Marking objects as invalid is cheaper than actually deleting them, and let’s you make assumptions about them in the future, but that’s a tangent.
All the data is still there in the database, so I believe technically you can restore the account or even assign the posts to another account. Just rawdog a query and flush all caches, see what happens!
Deleting all posts in this way might have unforseen consequences, since everything expects them to remain there.
We’re probably never doing any of that though…
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