Some forum posts have vanished
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I woke up today to see that some of the threads/posts are missing:
https://trisquel.info/en/forum/how-many-if-you-actually-only-use-librebootryf-computers (used to have 41 replys)
https://trisquel.info/en/forum/rub%C3%A9n-libreplanet (used to have 7 replies)
https://trisquel.info/en/forum/corebooted-lenovo-t440p-vs-laptops-novacustoms (my reply to Sudonym and his reply is missing)
the thread about Blobless SBCs is gone
https://trisquel.info/en/forum/libreboot-forked (Sudonym's comment mentioning Chromebooks and my reply to him about the freedom status of Tegra K1 hardware)
https://trisquel.info/en/forum/software-and-hardware-freedom-status-each-mainboard-supported-libreboot (some of the comments are missing)
It seems Sudonym's account got terminated (alongside his posts): https://trisquel.info/en/users/sudonym
And our discussion in the libreboot/RYF computers thread is also gone (I was just going to reply today or tomorrow).
It seems Sudonym is the same person who has "<name-removed>" in the email address. I decided to ask about this and sent an email
EDIT: I got a response. Sudonym just wanted to close the account. I don't know why :/ I was also asked to remove his/her real name from this very post so that it does not show up in search engines.
I don't understand why is the website set up to delete his/her posts alongside ours. Even if his/her comments are to be deleted, it should *never* affect other users who replied to his/her comments/threads and account deletion should not affect any of the contributions unless the user explicitly asks (or be asked at minimum) for it (e.g. via email). Even then, I'm unsure if it should be granted by default.
If the forum admin is reading this, please revert the (unjust) deletion.
*Edited*
I've sent a message using the contact form.
Hello,
I'm sorry but I'm afraid there's nothing we can do about this (at least by now).
The way this forum works means that when a user wants to delete their account in the site, they have the option to either keep their posts as they are, leave them assigned to an anonymous account or deleting them.
Also because of the implementation of the forum, when a post is deleted, its replies are deleted as well. If the post was the start of a thread, the complete thread will be deleted.
Up until some time ago, we handled user deletion on the admin side and we asked when a user wanted to delete their account about their choice, explaining the consequences of the removal over the content written by other users and also the loss of useful information for future members of the community.
But after some legislation changes, we had to make user account deletion a process fully under control of the users, so when this happens (thankfully very infrequently) a situation like the one you experienced arises.
I hope this clears the confusion even if it obviously doesn't undo the deletion of your contributions, for which I'm really sorry.
Thanks for the prompt reply. So this is a technical issue (which you can't fix) while the law requires to have an option for this on the website. This is extremely disappointing, knowing that anyone could at any point delete my posts.
I've mentioned this in https://trisquel.info/en/forum/trisquel-website-design#comment-171608. Hopefully, this will be addressed in the next redesign of the website.
"Vanity of vanities, all is vanity for the vanishing troll" -- venerable SkedarKing the Bilious.
I agree with how it works now because replies always might have quotations from the person that wants to delete all, so, it's better like this.
The important is not the reliability of information we wrote (we always can write it again), but the effectiveness of the right to be forgotten that is far more important all the more in the western societies.
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