Timeline for Delay user requests for account deletion by 24 hours
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| Oct 2, 2019 at 10:23 | comment | added | Toby Mak | Well, remember that any over 13 can contribute. Restricting people to be over 18 would be hard to enforce, so it is better to make less demanding expectations of users so that we can be inclusive of everybody. | |
| Oct 19, 2012 at 3:24 | comment | added | Shog9 | That's certainly another option. There are advantages to each. | |
| Oct 19, 2012 at 3:23 | comment | added | blahdiblah | @Shog9 That sounds like a good philosophy, but wouldn't the better change be to just explicitly require two (or more) mods to delete an account? | |
| Oct 19, 2012 at 3:16 | comment | added | Shog9 | Well, moderators can accidentally click that button. Not that this happens... often... But it is possible. And it's one of a handful of moderator actions that are currently rather hard to reverse. But yes, account reconstruction is (thankfully) very rare, and I wouldn't consider this a worthwhile feature if that were the only benefit. Honestly, the biggest advantage I can think of is simply philosophical: destructive actions should be either easy to reverse, or reviewed by multiple people before taking effect - currently, this is neither. | |
| Oct 19, 2012 at 1:54 | comment | added | jmort253 | Well, if I were SE, I'd definitely weight the cost of doing this against the benefit. If it's going to take a lot of work to do this, then it might not be worth doing. But if it's easy to do, when why not. | |
| Oct 19, 2012 at 1:52 | comment | added | blahdiblah | @jmort253 This is harmful. Developer time is limited; adding this feature means not adding some other feature. I'm not even convinced that we're doing these users a big favor. I'd rather they learn that actions have consequences by saying "To hell with this, I quit!" on SO than saying it at work. | |
| Oct 19, 2012 at 1:41 | comment | added | jmort253 | Even though we're dealing with professional adults, some people are still learning to be good professional adults. Even those in their 20's and 30's are sometimes a bit impulsive. Then again, sometimes those in their 50's act like children too, so there is that. But while I see your point and agree this is a bit patronizing, it's not harmful to make sure that there are tools to make this process go smoother and help avoid mistakes or lose good users who were just having a bad day. | |
| Oct 19, 2012 at 1:33 | history | answered | blahdiblah | CC BY-SA 3.0 |