disappearing posts when deleting users

[Andrea_R]

Anyone notice this? On one setup, where users were added as authors to various blogs, when the users were deleted, ALL posts they wrote went bye-bye too. They were not admins on any blogs, just authors.

Can anyone confirm and does this not make sense to anyone else?

[Luke]

Can't confirm, but doesn't make sense.

I would "think" that the post would stick, at least.

[Andrea_R]

And on top of that, it didn't do it consistently.  weird.

I recovered the posts from a backup though. But you know, i don't wanna do that all the time.

[trent]

I haven't tried this with just an "author", but when a blog admin was knocked off the posts stayed for me.    As well, when the admin was added again the posts were still there.     I always have one admin get kicked off my main blog whenever I add a site using the multi-site manager plugin and have to add it back every time.    I am so sick of that plugin.   

Trent

[ZappoMan]

I'm impressed you recovered the posts from backup... that sounds like it would have been a real pain in the butt! I guess if you knew it was just blogs 63, 879, and 1045 that this person was an author on, then it wouldn't be that hard... but finding every possible post they authored would require walking every blog in your backup. Ouch!

[Andrea_R]

Yeah it was "fun".
I had a list of author names and blogs they wrote on. eventually, I got a backup dump file and restored it locally (which was easier than I thought).

So I had to find their author ID, then each blog's ID, then go to the post tables for each blog, sort by author, check all those tables, then export them.

back to the live site, import all the zips one by one - and find out I had to edit bits at the top because it didn't need to create the tables already. And THEN I found out I had to go and read practically line by line because not all posts were gone - just some. to make it easier on myself, I went and looked at each bog, saw the date of the last post, and imported posts since then - mostly from january/february onwards.

It was a pain in the behind and I billed every minute. I suspect that it's quite possible the missing posts were removed by the laid-off authors.

[drmike]

+1 for calling that a bug.  Better way of handling it would be to either give the option to delete posts to the blog admin or have the posts assigned to a dummy (ie "Unauthored"?) account.

That's what most forum softwares do I believe.