Right, though to my reading the underlying concerns mainly centered on the effect of those actions on the flow and archival of discussions, rather than on the particular individual user account. As such, they still mostly apply here, just on a potentially far larger and more and disruptive scale (for an account with many threads and posts).
And as mentioned, the previous thread I linked discussed this very same scenario (a user who requested their account and personal data be removed, but had voluntarily included some amount of potentially identifying information in their posts in the form of a redundant signature line), in which it was come to the conclusion that deletion of their posts for GDPR purposes was not a necessary or desirable outcome (outside of extraordinary circumstances).
@malemburg as you provided a fairly authoritative response there based on your expertise, you might want to chime in here as well.
Right, but I scrubbed all such potentially personal information from their posts, as well as the old revisions in the history, after you flagged it, so I’m not sure there still an issue? And they did agree that anonymizing their account was acceptable after I stated that’s what my action of removing their account would do; if they had requested deletion of specific (or in general) personally identifiable information from their past posts at that time, I would not have hesitated to do so.