As a plus: If you make use of the mailing lists instead of the forums, you can choose to stop receiving emails (although your subscription will remain).
I don't know if this is the same case for the "forums-linked-to-mailing-lists" situation, but in *normal* mailing lists: You can unsubscribe/"delete account" and the threads and comments already created won't be affected. Mailing lists don't suffer from the current issues of the rating system issue. Finally, using mailing lists has the benefit of allowing you choose any reader you like (email client), with the workflow you like, with scoring in the way you like (to automatically set some threads or messages as important or to set them as spam/junk, although I haven't used any scoring yet). And also see, since I'm using the mailing list, citing a message normally attempts to get the friendly name of that person first, otherwise most email clients use the email address instead. In the case of the forums, they don't set the friendly name in "Friendly Name <name@email.whatever>", so, since "Friendly Name" is missing, the clients decide to refer to email address. One way around this would be to take the forum display name and use it as friendly one, but I don't know if this is possible in forums software (generally speaking, not limited to this one). This however, doesn't stop specific customizable email clients to use the email address for references directly. For example, I know that Emacs Gnus has this option (you can explicitly tell it to "always cite the email address when inserting parts of the original message", or something like that). Once again, notice that I'm citing david's message and that I'm using an email client: 2017-11-22T12:12:32+0100 da...@sognus.com wrote: > Every user has of course the right to delete his or her account. The > reason for the site to not provide a button for doing that directly is > that we like to try to offer help to anybody that wants to quit the > site for some specific problem but specially to ask them for > permission to keep their contributions to the forum, optionally > attaching those to an anonymous account. > > With the current set-up, if you could delete your user account wholly > on your own all the forum threads that you started would disappear, so > lots of helpful replies and conversations would be lost and that's > usually not the intention of the user leaving the site. So if someone > wants to delete an account, we ask about what to do with those > contributions and comply with the desire of the user. > > So no, this isn't the Hotel California of the Internet, you can leave > anytime you want but we'd rather have you or at least your memories > around to make the community stronger :) -- - https://libreplanet.org/wiki/User:Adfeno - Palestrante e consultor sobre /software/ livre (não confundir com gratis). - "WhatsApp"? Ele não é livre. Por favor, veja formas de se comunicar instantaneamente comigo no endereço abaixo. - Contato: https://libreplanet.org/wiki/User:Adfeno#vCard - Arquivos comuns aceitos (apenas sem DRM): Corel Draw, Microsoft Office, MP3, MP4, WMA, WMV. - Arquivos comuns aceitos e enviados: CSV, GNU Dia, GNU Emacs Org, GNU GIMP, Inkscape SVG, JPG, LibreOffice (padrão ODF), OGG, OPUS, PDF (apenas sem DRM), PNG, TXT, WEBM.
