This is hilarious that there's no such feature on this forum, and that it can turn into such a huge issue.

Even the dreaded facebook has a way to at least make your account inactive. This forum is a fail.

How do you know that for sure?

I am ready to bet a largish sum of money that when you remove your facebook account it will leave a huge amount of your personal data in there for the company to mine and dine on.
(not that we could ever settle the result of that bet, without hacking into the inner DB's of FB...)

It might look to you like your account is gone for good but they are a company that lives on your data, do you really think they will ever let go of it??

Is the forum still hosted on US soil or not? If not, IIRC EU law applies about the right to be forgotten.

From the Privacy Policy, in the footer of each page:

Funny. I didn't know that the privacy policy of talk.maemo.org referred to that of maemo.org. Now I do

Maemo.org was Nokia property. Now (at least the content, not the DNS or the trademark) it is owned by Hildon Foundation.

TALK.maemo.org was, AFAIK, was @Reggie's property. He donated it to the Hildon Foundation.

So perhaps the Hildon Foundation should write a new Nokia-independent policy.

The problem I now see is that the foundation's "Board" is a US non-profit organization, while the servers and the content is located in Hamburg (EU).

IANAL (nor want to be) but I hope this issue is addressed by the powers-that-(will)-be.

Or the requesting account deletion could just be allowed to die a natural death over a period of maybe 48 hours and all personal info deleted and all posts that contain the accounts holders avatar and threads/statements be replace with `deleted member` or something of similar wording,as has been presented previously,but must be correctly worded and a policy must be inplace before this can be observed.The company whom i`m employed by has been sued for not complying with such a simple request.

@ghost_who_walks, would there be one deleted member or many?

Depending on how posts are linked to the user (by name or by some unique id?), the former may not even be possible. And the latter is identical to @qwazix's suggestion.

Please allow me to explain,in a very condensed version,what occured at the company employing me.My employer,an international engineering company,set up a forum very similar to that of LinkedIn,to allow both employees to communicate with each other on a purely professional basis,ie;discussing and /or requesting help from other engineers within the company,around the globe.It works incredibly well,as it now allows skype,photo and movie uploading and live feeds.The orginal downfall was if any employee left,part of Human Resources work was to ensure he was locked out of the fourm,but his name and threads stayed inplace as if they were removed,any ongoing thread,it would cause disruption and fail to make any sense.Several years later,the former employee logged onto the forum thru another employees name,discovered,that his account had been locked down,but his threads remained and,thru a lawyer,discovered that these threads,though on company servers,remained his property.He decieded to take the company to court as they refused to comply with his written requests.The final outcome was all threads containing his name were to be completely deleted,leaving hundreds of threads ruined.The court refused the companies request to just change his name on threads to `******`,which was easy to comply with as the software allowed this,but the court ruled that `current users could still identify the previous employee/user by his answers`.The company spent 1.5 million to comply with the court order and was ordered to pay the previous employee a similar amount for `unspecified hardships`. So the Foundation,even though non-profit,must carefully deceide their next move.........

Oops!
Now I've read the story, I think the other forum I left of asked me on deleting my account whether I also wanted to delete my posts. I clicked no.

Big Oops bro.....