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<p dir="auto"><a class="user-mention notranslate" data-hovercard-type="user" data-hovercard-url="/users/gravitystorm/hovercard" data-octo-click="hovercard-link-click" data-octo-dimensions="link_type:self" href="https://github.com/gravitystorm">@gravitystorm</a> re "What causes the difficulty when the account is deleted?"  Some of the issues that we're seeing are described at <a class="issue-link js-issue-link" data-error-text="Failed to load title" data-id="1679596528" data-permission-text="Title is private" data-url="https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/issues/4018" data-hovercard-type="issue" data-hovercard-url="/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/issues/4018/hovercard" href="https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/issues/4018">#4018</a> .  I've added a few examples of that specific problem there; I could add more if it helps.</p>
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<p dir="auto">Is it because deleted users are unlinked in the web interface?</p>
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<p dir="auto">This does make it difficult for mappers to report vandals, and (because userid isn't visible on e.g. <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/143079112" rel="nofollow">https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/143079112</a> ) harder for everyone to see "who did what".  Everyone needs to click through to e.g. <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/api/0.6/changeset/143079112" rel="nofollow">https://www.openstreetmap.org/api/0.6/changeset/143079112</a> and there's no way from there to click through to "were they blocked?".  To get to "were they reported" you have to copy and paste an XML value from that screen into the "issues" search .</p>
<p dir="auto"><a class="issue-link js-issue-link" data-error-text="Failed to load title" data-id="1679596528" data-permission-text="Title is private" data-url="https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/issues/4018" data-hovercard-type="issue" data-hovercard-url="/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/issues/4018/hovercard?comment_id=1576811268&comment_type=issue_comment" href="https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/issues/4018#issuecomment-1576811268">#4018 (comment)</a> suggested a workload problem** ("Meanwhile I will get dragged into support complaints from people complaining that they can't delete their accounts.").  As I understand it, <a class="issue-link js-issue-link" data-error-text="Failed to load title" data-id="1679596528" data-permission-text="Title is private" data-url="https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/issues/4018" data-hovercard-type="issue" data-hovercard-url="/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/issues/4018/hovercard?comment_id=1773917139&comment_type=issue_comment" href="https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/issues/4018#issuecomment-1773917139">#4018 (comment)</a> and this pull request followed from that.</p>
<p dir="auto">** and <a class="issue-link js-issue-link" data-error-text="Failed to load title" data-id="1679596528" data-permission-text="Title is private" data-url="https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/issues/4018" data-hovercard-type="issue" data-hovercard-url="/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/issues/4018/hovercard?comment_id=1776958530&comment_type=issue_comment" href="https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/issues/4018#issuecomment-1776958530">#4018 (comment)</a> later suggested an unwillingness to deal with the workload by spreading it more widely.</p>

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