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Trash Can Invaders

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Allowing people to delete their accounts would break the interdependent data relationships in the database. If your account disappeared, for example, a ton of posts would exist with no author. If we removed your posts as well, then any topics you started would disappear and leave behind orphaned posts from other people. Basically, the database would become one maintenance nightmare.

(especially since MyISAM doesn't support foreign keys)
 
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for the posts (Deleted User) would do the trick I guess
anyway just asked as you can see the question mark at the end of sentence
 
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