[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #15855: Dropdown isn't shown when doing a user 'removal'

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#15855: Dropdown isn't shown when doing a user 'removal'
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 Reporter:  scribu                               |       Owner:
     Type:  defect (bug)                         |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal                               |   Milestone:  Future
Component:  Users                                |  Release
 Severity:  normal                               |     Version:
 Keywords:  has-patch needs-testing ux-feedback  |  Resolution:
                                                 |     Focuses:  multisite
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Comment (by Cleanshooter):

 The current inability to remove users from the network with out either
 deleting their posts or reassigning them to another user is a problem.
 When you have hundreds of sites and thousands of users network admins have
 no idea "who" to assign the post to.  We just know that we need to delete
 a user (for security reasons) and we need to keep all the sites post data
 intact.  Right now we can't do this.

 I have yet to look at the code in the site-users.php on this to find out
 how this might be possible.  Maybe adding the option to set the author
 field to a string instead of a user id?  Or... It might be better if there
 were a field in the user table admins could set to change a users "active"
 status.  This would be easy to add the the bulk actions.  Or even a role
 for "inactive" users that would prevent them from logging in at all.
 There are a lot of ways to do it but we just need something.

 http://wordpress.org/support/topic/delete-user-keep-posts-with-that-
 user?replies=2
 http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/can-i-delete-a-user-without-also-
 deleting-their-content
 http://wordpress.org/support/topic/delete-user-but-keep-who-wrote-the-
 post?replies=5
 http://wordpress.org/support/topic/delete-user-but-keep-author-on-
 posts?replies=3
 http://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-delete-user-and-keep-his-name-
 at-article?replies=2

 There a lot of people that have recognized a need for this already.  I'm
 kinda surprised its not on the todo list already.

 I hope that you'll consider adding this to a future Milestone because as
 of right now this posses a security issue.

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