[openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website] note comments from a deleted user should still be shown (Issue #6056)

[Andrew Harvey]

andrewharvey left a comment (openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website#6056)

> As explained many times in different threads this needs a decision on what we are legally allowed to do with regard to deleted users - technically none of this is hard but we need to know what GDPR etc requires of us.

I think it's fair to validate this from the legal side, but as it stands a users map edit contributions aren't removed/deleted upon account deletion (users can't even delete their own contributions, and even admins can't really delete, only redact) so I'm not sure how a note comment contribution would be different to  a map edit contribution.

> Also there's the fact that at least sometimes the user will have been deleted precisely because we want to stop their comments showing up!

I saw in one of the other issues there is (or proposed to be) a distinction between self-deletion and admin hide/deletion of accounts, so perhaps admins could have a toggle to hide all note comments or not during an admin invoked account hide/delete, and self-deletion would either still retain all their comments or show up to others as hidden comments from a deleted account.

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