[openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website] Use a state machine for user status (PR #3419)

[Andy Allan]

> This signals to me that hiding is not really a state but a flag on the user. A bit like act_as_paranoid (and similar) did back in the day.

Yep, there's big questions about whether hiding and suspending and activating (confirming email) should be separated out here into different columns. For example, being suspended for having a spammy profile doesn't reflect on whether you have confirmed your email or not, but combining the two concepts (as we have now) leads to information loss.

But that might be digging myself a bit of a hole here. On one side, I'm just trying to implement self-deletion of accounts. But on the other, we might not need AASM at all if we moved some of these states into flags. Thoughts and advice welcome.

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