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NoMad
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Don't care much about losing ++s, but would it be a good idea if we could see a history of deleted and created accounts as well? Like, a trackers of devranters.

I'd at least get less paranoid with "I lost ++s, someone must've deleted account... Who could it be?"

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  • 2
    @Frederick it doesn’t makes sense because deleting an account is not indicative of them not liking your rant.
    These are two very disjointed events.

    Simpler explanation is ++ should be like cash not stocks ( for the life time of platform)

    once you own cash it’s yours even if company that gave it goes out of market .

    I do not understand Implementing ++ like a stock that tanks with its giver ( suggested me a better word)
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    @Frederick true but, since you can't see who liked your rant (except in notifications) no one would actually know/ have a way to trace who deleted their account.

    Plus loosing ++ is a sure sign of someone leaving, making people curious and trying to go down a rabbit hole and find who left, whereas leaving them it's like nothing ever happened
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    @Frederick I don’t understand that argument my cpu(🧠) is slow lately

    But ideally data structures should not govern UX , rather UX should govern data structures

    may be subjective opinion but making ++ receiver the sole owner of those ++ makes sense UX wise
  • 0
    If you don't know who ++d the rant, you can't remove the ++ either. So you can't down vote the same rant you up voted.
    Plus, gdpr.

    A better idea, is to keep ++s for only two years.
  • 2
    This similar discussion on S.O seems to give some insight https://meta.stackoverflow.com/ques...

    Comment Quote
    "...you could also have gained points if the deleted user had instead downvoted (- -) your posts; I am sure you wouldn't protest such reversals as vehemently."

    Personally, I think the removal of ++'s after account deletion makes the platform spam free.
    If the removal is fair for - - it's also fair for ++
  • 0
    I don't think ++ should go. But I would like a list of who opted out.
  • 0
    @NoMad that's absolutely not gdpr-friendly.
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    Lol imagine if @-red left one day without any explanation.
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    Maybe not a log of deleted accounts, but if you truly care about ++ so much (I literally have no idea if my score goes up or down because I don't care) maybe something like stack overflow has where it tells you why you got ++ or -- recently. One of those could just be (Deleted account) but not give the username or anything (Obviously a deleted user wants their information gone, so displaying their username would be counter intuitive)

    But honestly I think the whole score thing isn't enough to warrant such development costs. Just participate in the community, that's what it's all about
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    @Frederick devRant uses Neo4j, so...
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