[support] Remove user: do not delete user

[sander-martijn]

Would it not be sufficient to simply block the users instead of deleting 
them?

Earnie Boyd wrote:
> Quoting Davide Michel 'ZioBudda' Morelli <michel at ziobudda.net>:
> 
>> Hi all. When a user want to delete from my site , for an italian privacy
>> law (in words more and more simple), I can not delete him/her data from
>> my DB but I can only delete his personal data (rewrite it with REMOVED
>> is enough), but not the email because the police can ask me who write a
>> comment or a node for some month after him/her delete him/her account.
>> (The italian policy law is more and more "articulate").
>>
>> I know that there is a hook_user() but how can I stop Drupal from
>> deleting my user ?  And I don't want the drupal change the uid
>> associated to the nodes that the users has write, too.
>>
> 
> Interesting problem.  You need a module to trap the Delete of the user 
> and change it to a block_user.  I don't know if a module exists already 
> but I might even argue that a user delete should only flag the user 
> record deleted anyway.  Perhaps an enhancement for D7 to add a deleted 
> flag in timestamp format to allow for proper administration of the user 
> data.
> 
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