[openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website] User account self-deletion allows bad actors to delete and recreate the same account name to "lose" changeset discussion and block history (Issue #4018)

[SomeoneElseOSM]

> I'm trying to reduce the number of people sending me account deletion requests, not increase it.

To be honest, most of these blocked users will have been shown a message such as https://www.openstreetmap.org/user_blocks/7071 which is actively trying to get them to reply to the DWG (and usually other mappers too).  We (the DWG) would be more than happy to say "you can't do X until you've done (this other thing that you were explicitly asked to do)".

This won't affect "normal" mappers, only people trying to evade account blocks by deleting the old and creating a new account.

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