# Should posts of departing users be deleted?

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**Created:** [June 8, 2021, 4:37pm UTC](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/should-posts-of-departing-users-be-deleted/1372 "2021-06-08T16:37:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![vmagnin](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/fortran-lang.discourse.group/vmagnin/32/28_2.png) [@vmagnin](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/u/vmagnin)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2021, 7:13pm UTC](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/should-posts-of-departing-users-be-deleted/1372/4 "2021-06-08T19:13:29Z")

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> [@milancurcic](#):
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> though a user that wants to delete their contributions should be allowed to do it.

To add complexity, note that although the user’s messages are deleted, the quotations of those messages seem to stay, for example here:  
[https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/what-is-the-superiority-of-fortran-over-alternative-languages-like-chapel-or-julia/1090/25](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/what-is-the-superiority-of-fortran-over-alternative-languages-like-chapel-or-julia/1090/25)

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