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Re:Instead of deleting account, NYT appends ‘1000’ to userna... by throwaway55554 on Tuesday April 28, 2020 @11:35AM (#23007997)
> I’d bet (a small amount of) money they have no ability to delete accounts at all

Probably not. I bet that goes for so very many organizations. It is far easier to reinstate an accidentally (user) deleted account if it is merely marked as deleted than if it were truly deleted.

Now, how NYT is handling this is ... well, it's bad.

Re:Instead of deleting account, NYT appends ‘1000’ to userna... by calvinmorrison on Tuesday April 28, 2020 @11:41AM (#23008089)
probably the fact that a good portion account deletes are users doing something they want to undo in the next few days. Soft deletes make this much easier, then going back and deleting anything older than X days is simpler than expensive customer support tickets of "how do i login it says my account is deleted"