when members delete themselves, the admin simply gets an email...

why not have it when the member decides to delete themselves, they must fill out a reason ? : )

so when they click the delete account button, they must fill in a field that once filled they may submit to delete and instead of a plain jane email telling the admin they were deleted, the reason will be emailed along with it...so we can keep track as to why members delete themselves...

thanks!

p.s. maybe develop further and possibly add a drop-down menu reason list... i.e.: lack of content, decided to create a new name, didn't like the site, didn't like some members comments, etc.....make sense?
and once in the future the members prune feature may be available, the email to auto-delete members will say "auto pruned for inactivity"

thanks again chums!

member deletion has been removed for the upcoming 9.0

oh darn....hmmmm (maybe i can work on this and implement it once i have 9.0 in my hands....mwaha, mwahahahaha)

any news on the member prune?

The option of allowing/disallowing user self-deletion is visible in admin.php?op=users_cfg section of cpg9 (cvs). It works perfectly (I think), I don't know if it will disabled untill cpg9 final. (I hope not...):)

the option is there but the ability does not exist. Admin deletion of members in 9.0 has been completely stripped out. I keep forgetting to ask/remind DJ to see if user self deletion should also be removed.

You're right, something strange is happening there...
Time will tell

I know DJ removed the ability for admin to delete on purpose.

admins can't delete users in 9? wouldn't that be bad?

no, not since deleting members causes all kinds of damage. HERE is a common occurance when members get deleted

yeah why not?

it saves the trouble of manually deleting them via phpmyadmin

unless he's cooking up something?? mwahahahahhaha

no he's not cooking up anything, the function was removed for a reason, and will not be returning unless someone takes the massive amount of time to build a delete function that works properly.

I see now.

so are you saying there is a bug in the current admin/delete system for 8.2b?

check out the thread I linked to above, thats an example of what can happen when a member deletion goes awry.

Hi ...

ok, did I get it right, that there will be no user-(self)-deletion in 9.0 ?

Too bad, we in germany NEED this function, because we have to allow user-self-deletion by law

Is it just the forums or do other modules also have problems with deleted users ?
We had a similar problem, when we included phpbb in our Nuke5.5 ..
we modified the delete-user-function, so that it will delete all userdata
and sets all forum-posts to userid=1 (guest)

Code::

mysql_query("update ".$prefix."_bbtopics set topic_poster=1 where topic_poster=$uid"); mysql_query("update ".$prefix."_bbposts set poster_id=1 where poster_id=$uid");

That fixed it for our system ...
please correct me, if I did get something completely wrong...
(and sorry for my bad english)