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<p dir="auto">Meanwhile I will get dragged into support complaints from people complaining that they can't delete their accounts.</p>
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<p dir="auto">With this suggestion, you'll only get that from <em>bad actors who have already been blocked</em> .  You're right that it doesn't stop "vandals will be vandals" (we'd need a much less fluid account sign-up process for that, which is a much wider issue), but it would stop a user from enforcing "their" edits with "their" account name, or being able to easily evade blocks by simply deleting their account and creating an "identical" one.</p>

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