Re^3: False Passwords Void / Method to Disable Your Account

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Re^4: False Passwords Void / Method to Disable Your Account by Co-Rion (Pilgrim) on Oct 02, 2009 at 15:44 UTC
No. You can set all these yourself, and as this is a one-time thing, I don't see any need to spend time on making this functionality into a button.	[reply]
Re^5: False Passwords Void / Method to Disable Your Account by Argel (Prior) on Oct 05, 2009 at 23:24 UTC
One time deal? Are you planning on removing the code that disables an account? If not, is this going to be documented anywhere? Elda Taluta; Sarks Sark; Ark Arks	[reply]
Re^6: False Passwords Void / Method to Disable Your Account (button) by tye (Sage) on Oct 06, 2009 at 01:44 UTC
The correct question is "Do you plan on disabling your account more than once and thus need to have the process automated down to a single button push?". That is how this is a "one-time deal". Of course, having a single button push to disable your account sounds like a really stupid feature. You could make it less stupid by adding an "Are you sure?" prompt. And who am I to tell you exactly how you want to leave your disabled account? It would be better to let you pick which items you want to blank out or replace with alternates as part of the process. Since implementing an "are you sure?" dialogue seems hardly worth the effort for such a can-only-be-used-once feature, we'll just require you to declare your intention twice before you submit. So I've collected the most commonly desired-to-be-blanked fields on a single form. Simply enter "0" twice to indicate that you are sure you want to disable your account and press the one button. All implemented. Now we just lack some documentation updates. - tye	[reply]
Re^7: False Passwords Void / Method to Disable Your Account (button) by Argel (Prior) on Oct 06, 2009 at 19:03 UTC
Re^5: False Passwords Void / Method to Disable Your Account by Zen (Deacon) on Oct 05, 2009 at 21:04 UTC
Where is the button to do this?	[reply]
Re^4: False Passwords Void / Method to Disable Your Account by ambrus (Abbot) on Oct 02, 2009 at 15:20 UTC
Would it also remove the information from google cache and the wayback machine, and distribute “corrected” copies of the old printed newspapers to everyone's homes?	[reply]
Re^5: False Passwords Void / Method to Disable Your Account by Argel (Prior) on Oct 05, 2009 at 23:17 UTC
The email address and real name are only stored in the database, right? So unless the user (or hackers) intentionally disclose that information it shouldn't be cached anywhere else. Elda Taluta; Sarks Sark; Ark Arks	[reply]
Re^6: False Passwords Void / Method to Disable Your Account by ambrus (Abbot) on Oct 07, 2009 at 08:36 UTC
Yeah, and if perlmonks deleted your email when your account is disabled then you couldn't get an email from the administrators if they found out your password was stolen (either because the attack was done before you disabled your account, or, like now, the attackers got hold of an earlier backup of the database). I don't mind that, because I for one don't want such an email (the Create A New User page even sort of promised they won't send me one), but you just might want to know.	[reply]
Re^7: False Passwords Void / Method to Disable Your Account by Argel (Prior) on Oct 07, 2009 at 21:47 UTC