Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-184.151.37.245-20160101181431/@comment-1038387-20160101192229

The account can be disabled (for good), but nothing will ever be deleted. Deleting accounts is impractical with MediaWiki (and any other wiki software). This isn't just for Wikia, this is for Wikipedia, every other wiki farm and, well, every single wiki on the web.

Every edit needs to be credited to an author. Deleting an account creates gaps in the page history that will lead to misattribution. Selective deletion of just comments and blogs on a large scale is not logical - if you want the account deleted and yet some edits to remain, to whom will those those edits be credited?

This will never happen, for the very simple reason that this is impossible to automate. Everything has to be done by hand, and even then, accidental account disables are very likely to occur. That will lead to a larger scale of protest than anything you propose. Also, it would require additional manpower, which will lead to more annoying ads. More protest.

Accounts are globally blocked and/or disabled for ToU violation. Accounts are disabled upon user request. Personally, I see little reason to add something along the lines of what you suggest.