Platform(s), such as mobile, website, API, other: website, mobile URLs (aka web addresses) of any pages, if relevant: Description of need: Currently, any user can choose to delete their entire iNaturalist account at any time. After initially clicking delete, users are shown a screen with text exp…

Just adding a thought: If there’s an inactive account setting, I would like to see for inactive accounts: a) observations accept community ID b) identifications accept taxonomic updates

I think there should definitely be multiple options for deletion, even if it’s something you already can do (like delete biography, profile picture, change username, unsubscribe from email, etc).

I’d support making it harder to do a full delete, and making the default option deactivation of some kind. Perhaps even when doing a full delete, the observer could be informed that their account will continue to exist offline for, say a month, so that if they change their mind during that period t…

I think GitHub’s account deletion policy does exactly what you’re hoping to accomplish. By associating identifications and comments with something similar to the ghost user , the information could remain on the site in a useful way. Here’s an example repository where I transferred ownership to a new…

just woke up and had the chance to read everyone’s comments since my last reply. Really appreciate everyone’s votes, feedback and suggestions. First my most important clarification. In my original post, any time I said anonymise, I actually meant pseudonymise. This was clumsy/inaccurate on my part …

[image] thebeachcomber: I personally strongly disagree, given that any user can currently already manually ‘inactivate’/pseudonymise their own account by editing their username, removing their real name and/or profile picture and/or bio. How is a user who has done that, with all of their IDs rem…

[image] spiphany: At the beginning of my post I discarded the idea of pseudonymizing deleted accounts, precisely because users can essentially already do this themselves. My assumption is that if someone is actively making a decision for account deletion, they therefore want a more extreme actio…

I think the discussion here mostly relates to ID’s and the expertise of the now gone user. I think the Observations can almost be treated as a separate case. In either case - it would be good to understand why people want to delete their accounts, maybe there could be a questionnaire for them to co…

See tiwane’s new Help https://help.inaturalist.org/en/support/home In the 4 most popular articles is - How can I delete my account? It is tiwane’s deliberate choice to make that option clearly available for iNatters who need it. (In fact it was his first choice when he launched the New Help) […

Change account deletion functionality to allow account anonymisation and prevent deletion of IDs

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amarzee June 20, 2024, 4:39am 19

I support this one!

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Change account deletion functionality to allow account anonymisation and prevent deletion of IDs

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