hide the user name for deactivated accounts

Bug #407189 reported by Martin Pool
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This bug affects 1 person
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Launchpad itself
Triaged
Low
Unassigned

Bug Description

People often complain that Launchpad does not let them delete their account (see eg http://www.google.com.au/search?q=+site:answers.launchpad.net+launchpad+delete+account). This gives a bad impression that Launchpad is being grabby or uncooperative about their personal data.

Through the fix for bug 2773 you can deactivate your account, but empirically many users do not find this satisfactory: it looks like Launchpad is kinda reluctantly half complying with their request.

One step to improve this would be: if the user closes their account, their real name should no longer appear in Launchpad. (Obviously this means in structured data; if someone says "Natalie Portman" in a comment we can't be expected to blank it out.) Three main changes:

 * in bug discussions and similar contexts the comment header should say [Deleted account], not the person's name
 * on the remnant person page it should just say "This person no longer uses Launchpad", not "Amartya Sen no longer uses Launchpad"
 * the action should be "Delete my account" not "Disable my account"

Martin Pool (mbp)
description: updated
Curtis Hovey (sinzui)
Changed in launchpad-foundations:
status: New → Triaged
importance: Undecided → Low
Revision history for this message
Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) wrote :

Fixing bug 283830 might address many of the complaints, in a way that is less mysterious to later readers of bug reports etc.

Revision history for this message
Martin Pool (mbp) wrote :

> Fixing bug 283830 might address many of the complaints,

It would address some of them, but

1- people will still click the url and be annoyed their name still appears, even if the page says noindex
2- this doesn't address removed users saying things in eg bug pages, where the bug page is still useful to index

Curtis Hovey (sinzui)
affects: launchpad-foundations → launchpad-registry
Curtis Hovey (sinzui)
tags: added: users
tags: added: merge-deactivate
Curtis Hovey (sinzui)
summary: - hide the user name for deleted/deactivated accounts
+ hide the user name for deactivated accounts
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