before deleting your account, because that action is irreversible and there is pretty much no way to retroactively delete your data afterward.
You can give users a time period to change their mind, after which their prefered option will apply to their content, deleting all of it, or keeping the content anonymously.
Except something might come up that causes you to want to permanently delete your stuff years down the line. For example, if you’re getting stalked or doxxed because the content you thought were anonymous still contained enough information to piece together stuff about you. It happens and is a problem.
I’m honestly against user content with no way for the user to delete it in general.
I think it’s fairly easy to see if the information in a few comments were enabling stalking or doxing. But again consider that such a happening would be extremely rare and might never happen.
You can give users a time period to change their mind, after which their prefered option will apply to their content, deleting all of it, or keeping the content anonymously.
Except something might come up that causes you to want to permanently delete your stuff years down the line. For example, if you’re getting stalked or doxxed because the content you thought were anonymous still contained enough information to piece together stuff about you. It happens and is a problem.
I’m honestly against user content with no way for the user to delete it in general.
In case of getting doxxed or stalked, user can contact the admin or moderators and ask for the removal of personally identifiable information.
it’s hard to verify the person’s identity in that case
I think it’s fairly easy to see if the information in a few comments were enabling stalking or doxing. But again consider that such a happening would be extremely rare and might never happen.