un registering

No official way. Just PM the administrator and, if you ask nicely enough they might delete your account for you :)

Un-registering is an option that still needs to be added. Should depend on what the site owner wants what will happen when a user unregisters. If a use is now deleted, all content provided by that user is also deleted. Forum threads may become complete rubbish in that way. So there must be an option to remove a member from the list while at the same time keeping the content. Takes some thinking on how to do that and some coding to implement that.

Normally you just have to alter the querys in acp/members.php where users are deleted.
On our former site it looked like this

} elseif ($step == "delete") {
if ($user_id != 1) {
$result = dbquery("DELETE FROM ".$db_prefix."users WHERE user_id='$user_id'");
$result = dbquery("UPDATE ".$db_prefix."user_groups SET group_leader='1' WHERE group_leader='$user_id'");
$result = dbquery("UPDATE ".$db_prefix."articles SET article_name='2' WHERE article_name='$user_id'");
$result = dbquery("DELETE FROM ".$db_prefix."comments WHERE comment_name='$user_id'");
$result = dbquery("DELETE FROM ".$db_prefix."messages WHERE message_to='$user_id'");
$result = dbquery("DELETE FROM ".$db_prefix."messages WHERE message_from='$user_id'");
$result = dbquery("DELETE FROM ".$db_prefix."messages_options WHERE user_id='$user_id'");
$result = dbquery("DELETE FROM ".$db_prefix."medal_user WHERE user_id='$user_id'");
$result = dbquery("DELETE FROM ".$db_prefix."news WHERE news_name='$user_id'");
$result = dbquery("DELETE FROM ".$db_prefix."poll_votes WHERE vote_user='$user_id'");
$result = dbquery("DELETE FROM ".$db_prefix."ratings WHERE rating_user='$user_id'");
$result = dbquery("DELETE FROM ".$db_prefix."shoutbox WHERE shout_name='$user_id'");
$result = dbquery("UPDATE ".$db_prefix."threads SET thread_author='2' WHERE thread_author='$user_id'");
$result = dbquery("UPDATE ".$db_prefix."posts SET post_author='2' WHERE post_author='$user_id'");
$result = dbquery("DELETE FROM ".$db_prefix."thread_notify WHERE notify_user='$user_id'");
echo "<center>".$locale['422']."<br><br></center>\n";
}
}

UID 2 was the (inactive) user "Guest".

I agree to that wholeheartedly, is an option we need to look at.

@alcazar:
I would rather give the user a new ID, and set a new field (user_deleted) to 1 (yes), and then the profile won't be listed anywhere else than where the user was active. (No profile link etc)
And the name could just be something like "deleted_ID"

All respect due, but I Disagree with both of you. It's pretty pointless, barely anyother software have it-- and that's what bans are for. You can make their profile unaccesible (because when you're banned your profile just redirects to the main page) and you can also keep their content.

Pretty pointless IMHO.

In practice you may be right, but following privacy regulations it may be necessary to remove priavte details of users (like email address, IM contact data, IP number) if he/she demands it. Upon banning these data remain available to everyone who has access to member administration.

I have a different experience with that, depending on what type of site you run. And since this type of software do have a member administration part, I think that this option is something we need to look at.

In my case, Un-Register would be a great addition. I have a youth sports website that members are mainly team managers. If the team gets promoted, relelgated or disbands, the user has no use for membership. Some of them contact me to say "Remove me from your lists" becuase they still get PMs and emails if they choose to not hide email. It would be nice if they could delete their own account.

Yes it will be a nice option if members could delete there own account.
only i think that for admins there must be two options.
1 delete account and hold the forum post and thinks.
2 delete account and remove evrything from the user.

So we can delete Bots including there spam.
And we can hold the members data.

also it will be nice that when a user has delete there own account. that te webmaster can choice if he wants to delete al the masages from that user
or that hé wants to hold al the information.

I might make a mod where user can "unregister" where all information is removed, except user_id and username.

It would be pretty simple really, as googlebot just stated modifying it so that it just clears out their email, website, IP address, and stuff like that would probably be the easiest and best way to go about it.

Yes, and if you removed the username, that would cause issues. And it wouldn't make (much) sense if you renamed it to a number, or a random string. And not to mention that would be VERY confusing.

That would be the best solution, a user can unactivate his/hers account, but the data itself stays until an admin deletes it. I actually think it's law in some countries that one must save user data for a certain amount of time.

You dont mean a country in middle europe with that beautiful chancellor? b)
Ask slaughter or Matonor then...

@Josso: We used another popular forum before Fusion.
Posts from deleted users appeared there under the user "Guest".
So, we did use this too, the user was deactivated and had no profile.