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Conrad_Farlow
Sheffield, UK
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Jan 24, 2012 - 6:24 pm

I had a test user called Tommy Tester who was a moderator. He made several posts but then I deleted the user name and re used the name an email while testing some membership plug ins. Anyway I now have the following situation.

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It's clearly not quite right. I suppose that if I attribute all the guests posts to the new Tommy Tester the problem will go away, or does this require a database edit.

Also could this possibly happen on a real forum, maybe it could and perhaps something could be done to mitigate against it?

Lets say a members who has made a few posts gets banned or resigns from a forum. Later on everyone kisses and makes up and the guy wants to return. Maybe this could quite easily happen?

Conrad

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Yellow Swordfish
Glinton, England
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Jan 25, 2012 - 3:17 am

I don't fully follow the chain of events here or what the image really means. But I understand the final question.

How exactly did you delete Mr Tester in the first place?

Currently, when a member is deleted from SP/WP, all of their posts revert to having been made by a Guest. There is not a lot of choice here because WP is going to wipe out their user records which SP needs to resolve who a user actually is.

This means that when they kiss and make up and want to come back those old posts are beyond being linked to that user.

We do, I know, have a ticket as a result of a user request, that when a user is deleted their posts be optionally assigned to another user of the admin's choice. This might make it in a future update.

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