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When Mike will implement account deletion ?
By Mike_Mirzayanov_Is_Pussy, 3 years ago, In English

It's 2 years now and Atcoder, Codechef are having this option. Topcoder also allows through email (they deleted within 10 hours of my email). Why not Codeforces ?

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3 years ago, # |
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Because Mike knows, once a codeforcer always a codeforcer :)

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I will rather delete my life than my codeforces account

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    At least you have an option to delete your life

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    This motivation will disappear after you get your first job.

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      3 years ago, # ^ |
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      Interesting. Why?

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        Because you won't get enough time.

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          3 years ago, # ^ |
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          So the amount of time you have is somehow related to motivation? Interesting.

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            3 years ago, # ^ |
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            I sent you message. Previously I was not able to reply before 10 minutes.

            -is-this-fft- I hope you haven't used blocking people below some rating feature. I wanted to discuss this with you. I can resend you incase of you have blocked.

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      3 years ago, # ^ |
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      Well, my job has to be super interesting then to be able to replace the motivation of cp.But lack of time won't be able to do that

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        3 years ago, # ^ |
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        Why did you started with CP ? Please tell story behind it.

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          3 years ago, # ^ |
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          Because I felt being a programmer is cool + I felt it like a sport when I watched icpc world finals videos in YouTube which motivated me a lot

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            Because I felt being a programmer is cool

            Why you feel sports programming is cool ?

            when I watched icpc world finals videos in YouTube which motivated me a lot

            I am sure you didn't jumped to world final videos straight away. You aren't telling the initial most motivation.

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              I learnt to code in my high schools,then I used to create problems by my own and solve them.I didn’t even know at that time that cp or codeforces existed.But I felt cool when I used to solve mathematical equations of theory of relativity or other formulas using code.My teacher told me that programming contests are held in university.Then I searched youtube

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Imagine you have many great blogs and your friend trolled you by testing the button delete

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    3 years ago, # ^ |
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    I imagine such a feature would require confirmation with your password, so even if you leave the computer open your friend won't be able to troll you like this.

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      I suppose it would be like facebook. Option to recover deleted account within a month of deletion.

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      Imagine you have many great blogs but after being under depressing of jobs, works, etc and having a crazy idea of deleting it forever. It is your choice but someone else might still find the blog useful. I suppose if there is such deletion feature then at least it could keep the blogs or maybe some drafts, or at least blogs with many upvotes.

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        How I would implement it: leave all comments and blogs intact, but display "deleted user" as the poster. Don't allow to browse other comments by that user, make all deleted users indistinguishable. Contests are a bit harder but probably also doable in a similar way.

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          Don't allow to browse other comments by that user

          This is very important point I think for maintaining privacy. I have messaged imachug. He also would be having creative ideas in such things.

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          3 years ago, # ^ |
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          Interesting. If it is implemented I wonder will the color name will be white out or having strike through.

          But I wonder about two things:

          • The drafts: What if all blogs are stored in drafted when he decided to delete that account, and what if he never tried publish such a great blog he wrioe in draft.

          • The ratings: What if one decide to delete the account when the system test is going on, and what if he submit something at last minute and the system test are queue-ing it.

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            I suggest to not actually delete anything (at least not for a while after the deleting action); just mark as deleted and never show to the users.

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Imagine the contest have to re-calculate the rank all over again in the contest when a competitor on high rank deletes his account.

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    Same problem is for codechef and atcoder. But they do it. Topcoder also allows deleting.

    Replace that competitor by Anonymous. No need to re-calculate.

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Because Codeforces is family. And you don't delete your family.

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What is the advantage of deleting accounts?

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When pigs fly

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