@Werner but that's just how it is. If @PauloCereda left it would show even more I guess. It's fairly clear that deleting your account removes your votes.
Currently, when a moderator deletes a user all of the user's votes are removed along with the user himself. I was pretty surprised at this behaviour when I first heard about it, and I don't think it is a good idea to throw away all of the votes just because the user is deleted.
Votes are locked ...
@Werner However, the passage that says The exact values of those thresholds don't particularly matter; they're pretty low, but not so low that you could hit them easily while still hiding fraudulent activity. doesn't seem to be really true in this case. Unless the reviewer decided for otherwise.
Did you contact the team? Did they initiate the deletion? Do they perform investigations into this or is there just some script in the background that runs (while everyone looks away)?
@egreg Though I can't be sure, my feeling is that the Powers will say 'if your rep is still above 20k after a loss of this type, there is nothing to worry about' even if the loss is relatively large: beyond 20k rep has no value at all in terms of the site
@EmilioPisanty No but you can redefine \author. I did it once - but not with a simple optional argument but a keyval-argument to be able to set the author for the toc, the header and an exported bib-entry.
@JosephWright That should read: "While 20K+ users are valuable to the site in terms of their contributions, reputation removal through vote reversal would likely not impact their behaviour or contributions..." Perhaps? ;)
@Werner Im confused as the question doesn't mention LT. In most cases in LT you'd want that in the table foot, but they are boxes set at the beginning so makes it hard to use page numbers
@cfr yes but the temp switch is just an implementation detail, recording if one of the specified options is seen, an then used on the next line around the passoptionstoclass
@cfr no it passes 11 if 10/11/12 are specified, i guess it's just trying to force 11pt and silently ignore 10pt and 12pt options, but accept all others (but I don't think it does that right and is more complicated than needed if that is the intention)
@Werner well the footer is same one every page except the last where you can use \endlastfoot, but both the repeated footer and the last one are set at the start, so if you put a \label and \pageref the last page of the table, you can do something with the \endlastfoot I guess
@DavidCarlisle It doesn't do that, if it is meant to. But I don't understand how it could. If the option is found, the switch is set to true, so the \else is never executed.
@DavidCarlisle Oh, I see. ;) Sorry, I'm trying to deal with a Thesis.cls and it is ... er ... well ... Not sure why. I just can't bring myself to send it back as is.
Unfortunately the user's behavior and voting patterns warranted not saving the 50,000+ votes from his account. It is our general policy that users who have been contacted and/or suspended for voting irregularities or sock-puppets in the past should *never* have their votes preserved upon deletion regardless of the impact to other users, due to the probability of remaining votes being inappropriate - and we can't easily reverse votes once they've been transferred to the Community user. Given the number of votes involved, we do investigate into the user before approving the deletion. …
For me it's clear that they investigate(d) this rather than just clicking some huge, red, plastic-box-encased, DaNGeR button.
I doubted it since the help on user removal and the accompanying reputation change to other users in the community seemed to contradict what was going on here.
But I'm satisfied now... chilling in the dust of you and @egreg.
