Ability to deactivate ones account

[Tintinnabulate]

Facebook is different. You cannot see their profile, wall posts, photos etc.
Have will power and stop coming on.
Or change your email, password etc to something random, simples.
Addicts will simply deactivate and activate their account everyday.

[GoldenMerc]

Legally if a user no longer wants their details to be on HabboxForum db they can request the removal of email, IP etc so then all they have to do is change the password and boom, your locked out

[immense]

cba to read all but if you dont wna use just change ya pw to something you wont remember

[nvrspk4]

Legally if a user no longer wants their details to be on HabboxForum db they can request the removal of email, IP etc so then all they have to do is change the password and boom, your locked out

You're making it more difficult than it needs to be, change your email to one that's not yours and change your PW to a random string of letters that you C+P and delete.

Your idea wouldn't work for two reasons...

Legally I don't think there's any requirement, I'm sure there's something in the Habbox T&C that if you put up the information it will continue to be accessible. IPs can't be removed without hassle and there's no real pretext for removal of IP...but you could remove your own email by changing it to a fake one, without needing admins.

Also, your method wouldn't work because without a valid email there would never be a link to click the PW, hence the PW wouldn't change from current (else I could continually reset someone's PW just by entering their email, the link has to be clicked.)

Not that this really matters, I think the main point is that we agree that the disabling isn't necessary, just not sure if you're talking about the IP stuff for safety of records as opposed to for the purpose of a lockout.

[Grig]

Simply, if you can't leave without having your account deactivated then you have an addiction.

[GoldenMerc]

No, im not saying you HAVE to do it that way but it is actually a legal procedure. Its data protection act, if you don't want them to have it you can request it to be removed. Plus getting a IP out isnt hard just go to the users profile in AdminCP.
But yeh easiest thing is change your email to a random one, change ur password to a random one and boom.

You're making it more difficult than it needs to be, change your email to one that's not yours and change your PW to a random string of letters that you C+P and delete.

Your idea wouldn't work for two reasons...

Legally I don't think there's any requirement, I'm sure there's something in the Habbox T&C that if you put up the information it will continue to be accessible. IPs can't be removed without hassle and there's no real pretext for removal of IP...but you could remove your own email by changing it to a fake one, without needing admins.

Also, your method wouldn't work because without a valid email there would never be a link to click the PW, hence the PW wouldn't change from current (else I could continually reset someone's PW just by entering their email, the link has to be clicked.)

Not that this really matters, I think the main point is that we agree that the disabling isn't necessary, just not sure if you're talking about the IP stuff for safety of records as opposed to for the purpose of a lockout.

[The Professor]

The account wouldn't get deleted, it'd just get hidden and posts kept intact like I said.

And I know that you may be able to just log out and never return, but if this was the case, then why do Facebook have a deactivation feature? Obviously there is some logic behind it.

I haven't read the rest of the thread but the reason for this is so that all the information on their profile isn't viewable any more. Most of the time when someone leaves facebook its because they're not happy with the way they handle privacy.

[Nixt]

No, im not saying you HAVE to do it that way but it is actually a legal procedure. Its data protection act, if you don't want them to have it you can request it to be removed. Plus getting a IP out isnt hard just go to the users profile in AdminCP.
But yeh easiest thing is change your email to a random one, change ur password to a random one and boom.

To my knowledge there is nothing in the data protection act that requires the removal of personal information from a website unless there is a court injunction specifically telling the data controller of that organisation to remove said personal information. I could be wrong but I am almost certain providing there is no issue with the way the data was acquired etc, we don't have a statutory duty to remove information on demand of the member unless that information is publicly available. However the only publicly available information on the forum (i.e. profile information) can be removed by the members themselves.