When a user deletes their content, is the data actually deleted or just hidden? When a user deletes their account, is all their content deleted?

In the spirit of privacy and data protection (since I assume that’s partially the target audience for a project like this), I feel like “real” content deletion is worth implementing if it’s not already implemented.

  • AgreeableLandscapeOP
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    5 years ago

    How are the comments stored in the database? Is it not possible to delete a parent comment while leaving the child comments, and just have a “deleted” placeholder for the parent comment? The only case I can think of where this might not be possible is if the comments were stored in an actual recursive tree instead of (how I imagine it’d be done), just having a column referring to a parent comment.