I'd rather them deleted than what MySpace does and puts "Account does not exist" with an avatar of a red cross next to it. I like to put a comment to a face!

Surely there are privacy issues that arise in that when a user is removed from the system they would much prefer it if everything was removed. That's part of the argument that's on-going with Facebook at the moment - something about people not being able to remove their very last picture from their account. As well as the intrusive advertising idea.

Another issue arises however. If you were to be the nice guy and remove everything relating to that user, you will undoubtedly be left with nonsensical conversations in the blog comments.

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