[openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website] Account deletion cool-down period (PR #4313)

[SomeoneElseOSM]

@gravitystorm re "What causes the difficulty when the account is deleted?"  Some of the issues that we're seeing are described at https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/issues/4018 .  I've added a few examples of that specific problem there; I could add more if it helps.

> Is it because deleted users are unlinked in the web interface?

This does make it difficult for mappers to report vandals, and (because userid isn't visible on e.g. https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/143079112 ) harder for everyone to see "who did what".  Everyone needs to click through to e.g. https://www.openstreetmap.org/api/0.6/changeset/143079112 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 .

https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/issues/4018#issuecomment-1576811268 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, https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/issues/4018#issuecomment-1773917139 and this pull request followed from that.

** and https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/issues/4018#issuecomment-1776958530 later suggested an unwillingness to deal with the workload by spreading it more widely.


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