[development] Re: [drupal:dries] /modules user.module

[Karoly Negyesi]

On Mon, 09 Jan 2006 21:24:28 +0100, Bèr Kessels <ber at webschuur.com> wrote:

> This is one of those issues that come up like, every three weeks?
>
> Last time this was discussed we seemed to agree that :
> * There is not *one* way to do this. It very much depends on the site.
> * Some people preferred to change the status of nodes, others to delete  
> nodes,
> again others to just change the username into something like "deleted
> user" (and block that user).
> * Drupal should not go for a default way, but rather present good hooks  
> and
> APIs and let it be the way it is now: do nothing. Then the contribbuted
> modules could do it in fancy ways, acc to what the site prefers to do.
>
> Am i missing something? Or should we rather pick up the discussion there  
> and
> get closer to a solution :) ?

There are lot of good solutions. But there are a lot of _bad_ ones and we  
shall avoid those.