Ability to delete devforum account

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#1

There should be an easy way to delete your devforum account with the click of a button or a private message to a bot account.

I believe this should be implemented for the following reasons

  • It should be easy to erase all of your replies and activity on the devforum for privacy reasons
  • You should be able to restart your profile
  • Better alt management. I want to add my alt account to my main email, but if I do that I would be unable to access the forum on both accounts since both already have a registered devforum account.
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#2

I want to also add that a Right to Erasure request for your Roblox account does not actually delete anything tied to your DevForum account: your user, profile picture & bio get changed/deleted but every post/topic/link stays up for the public.

I don’t know how Discourse works but being able to truly erase this data upon request would be nice.

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#3

You’ve already posted it publicly for everyone to see? It’s likely it’s been shared around and archived dozens of times by that point. Unless you accidentally submitted PII, I don’t see why content should be removed for that reason.

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#4

This argument doesn’t make any sense. If you want your posts removed for any reason, you should be able to do so.

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#5

This should probably be posted on Discourse and not DevForum…

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#6

Essentially, what happens is that people generally prefer to use the anonymise feature. If Roblox was to delete all of a person’s content on the forum, there might be a lot of gaps in stuff.

There is a way for you to delete someone’s entire account and posts, but it then means you’re left with a lot of deleted posts. This is how it appears internally:

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This isn’t really a topic for https://meta.discourse.org. Discourse has features for staff to delete a users account, however Roblox only currently deletes/anonymises a users account when a GDPR erasure request is sent to them for the entire platform.

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#7

You’re able to delete your DevForum account by doing a “Right to be Forgotten” request, however then you’ll be doing a complete Roblox account deletion as well. Which I’ll be real, isn’t very legal with in GDPR and there should be a separate option, if you wish you’re able to to make an out of court dispute against Roblox based on Digital Services Act.

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#8

But why do people even delete their accounts in the first place? Just stop playing roblox. Leave your history as it is.

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#9

Oh I thought Roblox does the same thing as what Discourse does because roblox uses discourse
To be honest sometimes i wanna delete my dev forum account cuz i mainly do reading and i dont post so mcuh nowadays
So roblox gotta add the feature

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#10

This feature-request came up in the past and this was the response:

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#11

Correct our stance is as in the thread above.

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#12

One thing I’ve found is in the forums from like 2013/2014, some users have been turned into “anons”, so I wonder if at some point you could delete users.

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