Blog owner after a member is gone?

Hi,

A few members on our site complaind that they are seeing Blog posts as they were an owner of the blog post although they havent wrote them....

I've noticed that if a real owner of the Blog post is not a member any more, all of his/her post are presented to a viewers as they are the owner. That is odd! 

It should change to Anonymous or something like that, don't you think?

Does anyone know how to do that?

And, isn't it strange, that if a member decided to leave the site, all of his/her Blogs, Forum posts etc. are not deleted as well?

Greetings
Mayki

That sounds odd. Can you reproduce this behavior on demo.boonex.com?

What version are you using as this was fixed very early in the 7.1 series. I saw this as well with 7.1.0 and it was reported.  Blogs should be deleted when a member removes their account.

"And, isn't it strange, that if a member decided to leave the site, all of his/her Blogs, Forum posts etc. are not deleted as well?"

I do like the fact that things do not disappear (blogs are an exception). A person can add very valuable information. Just because they leave does not invalidate the content they have added, and for our usage, it is better for things to stay. I did modify the info block so not to show who originally added the content as it appears normally, and this has resolved the confusion of others being listed as creator even though they are not.

I totally agree with this ...

It seems you have some third party module or customization done to the site that is breaking the proper flow of the unregister process on your site. In default dolphin, the members content is deleted when they unregister. If you wish you can PM me your site details and I will look to see if I can quickly figure out what is causing the glitch.

When you delete someone there should be an option if their content is deleted or not. That way you can select yes for the spammers and no if the person had content you want to stay.

Hello,

@geek_girl: Dolphin ver. that is in use: 7.1.4. 

@Nathan Paton: I tried on demo.boonex.com and the blog was deleted with user.

I agree with 

And I also totally agree with @ProfessorSr and @Detective08:

But not as I described - owner should changed to Anonymous...or something like that.....

I do not use any special modules.....

Where to look, to check? What is the SQL query when user is deleted by himself or by admin (which doesn't matter anyway)

Thanks for all the replies.

Greetings

Mayki

Just my five cents: recently I reported similar bug with 7.1:  when user account is deleted, his messages in Simple Messenger still remains, which affects and confuses some third-party modules based on Simple Messenger.

I guess it's just out of the list of sql queries "what to clear" when user is deleted.

 Hi,

 What I can not find out is which file contains the list "what to clear" so I can check why Blogs arn't deleted.

Or, does anyone can tell, how to change action when member is deleted, so that his/her blog post remains but owner change to Anonymous like in Forum...

Regards

Mayki

try looking in the blogs module folder /classes/BxBlogsDb.php - there may be a delete function to clear users blogs when their account is deleted

For some reason I was thinking that was all in admin.inc.php but I could be wrong.

 Hi,

@ProfessorSr:

 I believe here in a BxBlogsDb.php is a way to alter the code so that if there is no owner member found it gets replaced with Anonymous?

I was looking at line 204:

function getBlogInfo($iMemberID)
    {
        $sBlogsSQL = "
            SELECT * FROM `{$this->_oConfig->sSQLBlogsTable}`
            WHERE `{$this->_oConfig->sSQLBlogsTable}`.`OwnerID` = '{$iMemberID}'
            LIMIT 1
        ";

But of course  I do not know how to do it....

@mscott:

In a file "admin.inc.php" there is a 'list' of what should be deleted (started at line 379) when member - profile is deleted but no Blog entries there.....

Regards

Mayki

Maybe a bit late but this is really a question of copyright; and that depends on your ToS.  One issue I never liked with some sites was the fact that one gave up ownership/copyright of content posted to the site.  Our ToS states that the member retains full copyright of the original content they publish.  Therefore, when they go, when they remove their account, their copyrighted content should go as well.  If this is not the case for your site, your ToS should state that copyright of any original content posted is transferred to the site.

@geek_girl:

thanks for your thoughts but that doesn't resolve my problem since no matter how ToS are written our site still does't delete Blog posts after owner is gone...., and if blog posts are to be changed to Anonymous ToS can be changed accordantly....; btw. who are reading them on porn site??? LOL

So anyone can help me with that problem?

Regards

Mayki

This information may be of some use for people to know. There is a bug in dolphin when it come to deleting blogs.

Example. If the admin is deleting a member, then the blogs will also go. I also believe when a member un-registers, their blogs will be deleted also.

However when a member is deleted from a cron run such as when purging expired accounts occurs, then blogs do not get purged. This is due to a bug in the blogs module. Blogs can only be deleted by the owner or admin, a cron run cannot delete them.

@deano92964

Is there a way deano (I belive it is but I do not know how to write the code) that will alter owner if not exist any more to Anonymous..since it is very confusing to members when a Blog post is presented them as their posts when real owner is not member any more....

Greetings

Mayki

Not that i am aware of.

 RE

 OK... but this is also true:

A person can add completely useless information. When they leave, it would be best if the totally useless crap they posted everywhere goes with them. It is better to wipe out all traces of their existence.

 But it is somehowe done in Forum.....

Greetings

Mayki