AVR Freaks

It's true that from time to time folks have asked for their accounts (and posts) to be erased. Sometimes it's because they don't want a tutor/employer seeing they have been helped and stuff like that. Some folks have other reasons for asking. I usually try to persuade folks to leave their trace as removal will have the kind of effect of breaking dialog sequences. Also in the way this Drupal forum works if people use "reply to #n" rather than just "reply" then if #n is removed it takes away other people's responses, which isn't really fair on them if they have spent time and trouble to compose replies.

But ultimately if someone insists I have been in the habit of following their request (it's their prerogative after all). What I have discovered recently (and perhaps a forum update added this or I had simply not noticed before) but there's an option where the forum can send the user an email that gives them the very last say in "pushing the button" and nuking their account/posts. So I have used that recently.

Now my memory is so hopeless these days that I don't remember Giorgios asking for this, of course it could have been another mod, but I think because he's posted a lot of valuable stuff I would have tried to talk him out of it.

On the other hand some people might have a right strop from time to time and jettison all the toys from the pram and if that happened I would likely have compiled without too much thought ;-)

It's a shame the internet archive don't have snapshots as I would like to get a clearer idea of what has actually gone. I do seem to remember that Giorgios also posted a lot of slightly off topic stuff about Greek philosophy. If someone had said something about that to upset him I can maybe understand why he might have asked for an account/post deletion.

(I was going to say I'd check my PM archive to see if I had any communication about account deletion with him but I just thought - if the system is being efficient it will presumably have removed PMs too?)