Why do comments remain when a user deletes?

  • Andry

    (@blackstar1991)


    1 year, 5 months ago

    Can you please explain why if you delete a user from the admin panel of site the fields in the tables wp_comments and wp_commentmeta are not cleared from this user?

    Why don’t the comments left by this (deleted) user at least change the status? <strong>comment_approved</strong> = '0'

    I don’t understand this logic. Even Google cleans its databases of information from deleted users

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  • I don’t understand this logic.

    From a site owner’s perspective, here’s one such logic — and why I wouldn’t want to delete a user’s comments along with account deletion:

    Comments are often parts of discussion threads. So when comments are deleted without regard to such threads, the site will end up being littered with comments that don’t make any sense… because their context, the original comments that these (now senseless) comments originally responded to, got deleted.

    Thread Starter Andry

    (@blackstar1991)

    Well, received.

    Then why not transfer all these comments (with their comments meta) to the status comment_approved => '0' that admin of site see that his site has a lot of comments from dead user ? (if comment_parent => ‘0’ of these comments)

    • This reply was modified 1 year, 5 months ago by Andry.

    I hear you… but I don’t see how that solves the problem I described above.

    Unapproved comments don’t appear on the front end. So this proposal has exactly the same effect as deleting the comment as I described above.

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