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Originally Posted by Evil Kid John
They  said  they  never  delete  accounts  they said that 
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There are accounts, and then there are Accounts.
Some people register, but then they never respond to the confirmation email for whatever reason.
Since they never confirmed, they were never able to post or anything. Deleting those registrations frees up the usernames for others, and it reduces the side of the user database which doesn't hurt.
Those are the "accounts" that we feed to EKB. There has probably been close to 100,000 deletions like that since this site began.
There was a handful of active accounts that were deleted over the years. It tends to cause problems when we do that, since you can wind up with goofy stuff like the "names you can't click on anymore", and worse. That's why we do not delete active accounts anymore.
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