The last thing i have under general permissions of a group is "Delete own account".
Hope that helps.
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[Liam W] (RIP) Member Self Delete 2.0.5 Patch Level 7
- Thread starter Liam W
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Hope that helps.
Ah sorry, I meant "Delete own account", not post
There is a group permission which you probably didn't set for the user group.
I keep getting complaints from users that cannot self-delete their account. Permission analysis shows they have permission to self delete. I don't see anything in the criteria to block it. One member mentioned they got a message about their account age blocking deletion.
I found the phrase:
Is this addon compatible with @Xon 's User Essentials and its self disable account feature?
I found the phrase:
Is there a setting somewhere related to account age? The user deletion log shows no self deletions.
Is this addon compatible with @Xon 's User Essentials and its self disable account feature?
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At some point this addon stopped actually deleting. The process kicks off and I even get a thread auto created but on the date there's no deletion of the accounts. This is on 2.3.9. No idea when it stopped working but I suspect prior to 2.3.9. @Painbaker you still helping with this one?
I had it setup to disable rather than delete and it did work for a while.
I had it setup to disable rather than delete and it did work for a while.
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I truly believe it’s time this functionality becomes part of the XenForo core.
@Chris D:
Considering GDPR (Article 17) requirements, users should have a native, streamlined way to manage their right to erasure. The Grace Period logic from Liam’s add-on is particularly brilliant - it ensures compliance while preventing "rage-quits" and reducing manual admin workload.
Native user self-deletion with a configurable cooling-off period would be a massive win for privacy and community management alike. Any chance we'll see something like this in a future XF update?
@Chris D:
Considering GDPR (Article 17) requirements, users should have a native, streamlined way to manage their right to erasure. The Grace Period logic from Liam’s add-on is particularly brilliant - it ensures compliance while preventing "rage-quits" and reducing manual admin workload.
Native user self-deletion with a configurable cooling-off period would be a massive win for privacy and community management alike. Any chance we'll see something like this in a future XF update?
Still working fine on 2.3.9 and now 2.3.10. Users requesting account removal are deleted correctly after the time period.
Do you use the "delete" or just the "disable" option in the backend of the add on for the users? The complaint by @ichpen refers to the "delete" option.
Just FYI using the "disable" option in this add-on would not be GDPR compliant, you would need to actually "delete" to be GDPR compliant.
Plenty of US states have similar laws with right to be forgotten. California, Texas, Colorado, Utah, etc, etc.
Pretty much across the whole western world running Xenforo without this addon is illegal. I don't understand how after all these years - GDPR has now been around for almost a decade - this is still not core Xenforo functionality.
I explicitly said "Users requesting account removal are deleted correctly after the time period.", so yes I was referring to the "delete" option.
A bit of a wide shot. Very wide. GDPR includes the right to be forgotten which may mean "deletion" (but alreday this is debatable). As far as I know GDPR does not lay out a dedicated way how this has to be achieved and especially not that it has to be an autonomous self-delete process like through this add on. It should be totally sufficient if it can easily achieved by other means like i.e. filling out a form and the admin deleting manually or having to send a pn to staff. It must however be transparent what the process ist.
So XF is not "illegal" - wrong understanding of GDPR has caused so much confusion. At least in a forum for XF admins I would expect that someone who makes claims about GDPR has actually read it and knows it's content instead of spreading FUD and wrong information.
Still I think self-delete integrated in XF would make a lot of sense and would be very desirable.
As I am playing around with the add on at the moment anyway I tested the delete option on my test forum with the actual XF 2.3.10 and it worked indeed flawlessly. So the issue of @ichpen must have a different root cause.
Indeed this is a shortcoming of this add on and I would see this implemented too. The current situation is not really satisfying. One could probably tweak this a bit by changing the option for name randomizing like this:
But it would still not be a good solution, as a) longterm forum members still would be confused it the same user name now would be a completely different person and b) if the new user with the old name would delete himself in future it would become even more confusing.
I am wondering if the "delete" option could be made a little less prominent. I would like to get rid of this
and only leave this:
Should probably not be too difficult, still I have no idea how to do it. Any suggestions?
and only leave this:
Should probably not be too difficult, still I have no idea how to do it. Any suggestions?
Just go to AdminCP -> Appearance -> Template Modifications: (you will see below)
...turn off what you don't want
Brilliant! That was easy!
