Clarification on how Account Deletion Works

[oldikes]

It mentions in the terms of service/guidelines that deleting an account disassociates that account with the still-existing posts that account made.

Does this mean the username is removed from the posts and replaced with some other string, or just that the account can no longer be directly accessed from posts? If it is the former, how about posts where others quoted your own and the username is in the quote heading?

The deletion page says posts will be attributed to "" but it is unclear to me what exactly that means.

 

[Julio Franco]

Thank you @ikesmasher. There were a couple of mistakes in the description of the self-deletion tool since we updated it, now corrected. A similar disclaimer is readily available in our Terms of Service which read as follow:

The administrators of TechSpot reserve the right to remove, edit, move or close any discussion topic, post or account for any reason. You may delete your account information at any time by logging into your account and following the steps under “Account Settings.” When you delete your account, your profile is no longer visible to other users and disassociated from content you posted under that account. Users will get a 7 day grace period to recover their accounts, after that time has passed their profile info will be removed from our database. Please note, however, that the posts, comments, and messages you submitted prior to deleting your account will still be visible to others.

Furthermore, in instances where the user has posted personal information (real name, etc.) we've helped them remove that data as well.