Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-184.151.37.245-20160101181431

Hello. Now Wikia claims that it is an oasis, but its an oasis that keeps the customers there. Wikia will only disable accounts which still puts them and the user at risk. People who sign up for Wikia are forced to choose between contributing to their favorite topics and risk putting themselves at risk, or protecting themselves by either operating anonumosly which in some wikis is not allowed. That is not the best decision, and although Wikia has never had a major data breach before, it certainly dosent mean waiting until it happens. Wikia should delete the accounts of users after 30 days to not only protect users, but to protect itself.

Here are the items that should decide whether or not a user should be allowed to have its account deleted. The first one should be if the Staff have globally blocked the user, as a global block indicates that the user did something serious enough to breach the TOU. The second one is their record, if a user has been banned permantly from 50 wikis, then they should be denied that inmediatly. A third and final one is if a user has threatened to commit murder, threats of violence, or ethnic, racial, or gender based slurs, as a user who does that is automatically disqualified. Also, when the account is deleted, the edits that user made on community articles will remain, but messages, blogs, and comments, and everything else will be deleted after 30 days. Also Wikia should hold the personal data of the person who owned the account for 90 days after which it will be deleted as well. Accounts that have already been disabled globally are deleted inmediatly, while users who have changed to a new email have the right to inform Wikia.

Now usually they would say "Please report it to Special Contact", but as we knoow, Wikia will usually kindly decline to an individual request. As Caesar once said "Ape alone weak. Apes together strong!" and that means that Wikia will kindly decline an individiual request, but we have seen, people power, where hundreds or thousands of people want the same thing, the targeted audience will eventually agree. So I ask all users to please voice your support for Wikia having an account deletion policy to protect both Wikia and its users. 