@VincentThacker In more general terms a "sprint" is a short time window where a team works to complete a set amount of tasks. In this case, SE dedicated a sprint PURELY to community tasks, rather than anything else they've got going on
I have heard that staff can manually 'undelete' accounts by sort of creating a new account at the original user ID, and manually re-attaching all the old posts, but I am guessing if you voluntarily choose to delete your own account, they will refuse to do that.
Obviously, IDK if they'd be willing to make an exception to it normally being irreversible, but presumably it's possible for someone with database access to revert the deletion or re-attribute the posts to a new site profile
@CPlus I know of at least one user who RQ'd/requested deletion, then came back later and got most of their posts restored after asking nicely (I think they still lost comments and maybe deleted posts?). But it was made clear that this was an exceptional case and not something they would do for anyone. It was also years ago at this point (and a very different SE at the time too)
@Robotnik I do think Shadow Wizard would qualify as an exceptional case though, They are probably one of if not the user with the most contributions to delete their account
@JourneymanGeek the server is gone and as far as I know the other auth endpoints are either homegrown without a public API or oAuth but no option exists AFAIK to connect external services to that.
To make something clear: When it comes to suspended or deleted users, chat is not the place for speculation on what happened or opining on whether it was deserved or not. That is between the affected user and the CM team, and discussing it here accomplishes nothing except fearmongering. Please do not continue to bring such discussions up here.
Probably going to leave a comment on the GitHub issue to see if Stack's working on it. If so, great! If not, might finish it and send a PR (this does work, but the code is messy, not compatible, and breaks another feature)
this bump answer got +2 since I posted it two days ago - I'll start burninating community-standards tomorrow, unless I get some negative feedback on the answer to make me reconsider
@StarshipRemembersShadow Not sure if Shadow has more or less contributions, but Will is an honorable mention for someone with high contributions who deleted their account.
