Legal Note: A user violating the terms of service does not invalidate their copyright. That is to say, deleting a user and anonymizing their posts, while continuing to serve them to future visitors, is a violation of the Creative Commons license and American and international copyright law.

I request that a Stack Overflow moderator confirm to me who deleted user 4714902, because I assume it was an employee and the company is directly responsible, but legal@stackoverflow.com is not responding to my request that they stop illegally violating my copyright.

And, more generally, fix the user deletion process so that it does not systematically violate copyright by design, because this is obviously not the first instance.

@JourneymanGeek You're pingable in this room so you get pinged.

@user26744 erm

I have utterly no idea what this is about at all.

I'm not an SO mod and there's no way for me to check

And I don't represent the company in any way. And saying "legal note" does not make it legal I suspect

damn

I thought that made it legally binding

and you had to do whatever I said

Nope

I guess I'll go research DMCA instead.

Still won't work on mods though

We don't work for SO

@user26744 the best advice I can give is to try contacting the community team as calmly as possible about this - and see what happens. That said, mods are regular users, and across many sites so, I can't really check for you the how and the why.

especially if you think an employee did it