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Slightly off-topic, but with the GDPR being all hot: how are you planning to do this @tfoote? I can't imagine that just blanketly deleting any and all contributions of an account would be desirable. That would completely destroy the site if it was a productive account. There is quite a bit ..

.. of debate whether, and if yes, how much, of a forum post is actually 'general' content or really personal data, and how that works out with the chronological structure and coherence of media such as fora.

When you delete an account you need to remove all personally identifying information, but content on the site is not part of that. I found a good article at: https://www.discoursehosting.com/your... about anonymizing.

According to some sources it actually depends on the content itself. Some (extreme) interpretations could mean that forum admins would have to scrutinise all posts by a forum member to see if it contains any personally identifiable data, and if so, remove it.

That page is nice though.