[wp-hackers] deleting a user, save posts by him

[David House]

On Apr 7, 2005 2:31 PM, Mike Little <journalized at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am more inclined to think that should we have an option to *hide*
> the level-0 users. After all the space taken by them is negligible.

Why? If we're feature-adding, we might as well go the extra mile and
add functionality to deal with the real problem, rather than adding
functionality to make what is essentially a hack work a bit better.
 
> If you want to delete them you are back to the problem of their posts.
> How or where to store the attribution? There is nowhere to do that if
> you delete the record to which they relate.

How about a page entilted 'Delete user' that says something along the
lines of 'Deleting a user won't delete the posts authored by that
user, so please select another user to attribute those posts to'?

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-David House, dmhouse at gmail.com