Warning when deleting OpenIDs

[cesy]

Title:
Warning when deleting OpenIDs

Area:
openid, importing

Summary:
Add a warning when deleting OpenIDs, linking to a FAQ on OpenID and explaining the consequences clearly.

Description:
When someone deletes an OpenID account, give them a warning first which links to the FAQ, and explains how importing works, and that they would be deleting comments* their friends have imported. Also explain what happens if the friend later re-imports their journal, including those comments.

This would help clarify for the cases where someone tried to delete their OpenID as soon as they got a full DW account, without realising what they were doing.

Edit: * Actually, not deleting comments, just leaving them with a strike-through in the username and meaning that the OpenID user couldn't access them. Possibly this illustrates the need for clarification ;)

Poll #1250 Warning when deleting OpenIDs

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 34

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Should be implemented as-is.
28 (82.4%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
1 (2.9%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
0 (0.0%)

(I have no opinion)
3 (8.8%)

(Other: please comment)
2 (5.9%)

Comments

[cesy]

You're right it doesn't actually delete the comments. I think I was getting mixed up with the other problems it causes.
*edits*

I don't actually know what happens on re-import, which is partly why I think this should be clarified.

[yvi]

I don't actually know what happens on re-import,

I am not sure why something strange *would* happen, to be honest. Comments from deleted accounts are imported completely without problems otherwise.

[cesy]

I think I was thinking of if you delete a comment, and then it is re-imported, so deleting it doesn't mean it'll stay deleted. So actually that warning should happen when deleting any OpenID comment, or possibly any imported OpenID comment.

[yvi]

Or any imported comment at all. That behavior isn't limited to OpenID.

May be a separate suggestion :)

[cesy]

How else would a comment be imported? Surely all imported comments appear as OpenID?

[yvi]

Er, right... I somehow forgot that ;) Maybe once the OpenID->user account association thing is live? But yeah, I was talking bullshit there :)