Don't care much about losing ++s, but would it be a good idea if we could see a history of deleted and created accounts as well? Like, a trackers of devranters.

I'd at least get less paranoid with "I lost ++s, someone must've deleted account... Who could it be?"

@Frederick it doesn’t makes sense because deleting an account is not indicative of them not liking your rant.
These are two very disjointed events.

Simpler explanation is ++ should be like cash not stocks ( for the life time of platform)

once you own cash it’s yours even if company that gave it goes out of market .

I do not understand Implementing ++ like a stock that tanks with its giver ( suggested me a better word)

@Frederick true but, since you can't see who liked your rant (except in notifications) no one would actually know/ have a way to trace who deleted their account.

Plus loosing ++ is a sure sign of someone leaving, making people curious and trying to go down a rabbit hole and find who left, whereas leaving them it's like nothing ever happened

@Frederick I don’t understand that argument my cpu(🧠) is slow lately

But ideally data structures should not govern UX , rather UX should govern data structures

may be subjective opinion but making ++ receiver the sole owner of those ++ makes sense UX wise

If you don't know who ++d the rant, you can't remove the ++ either. So you can't down vote the same rant you up voted.
Plus, gdpr.

A better idea, is to keep ++s for only two years.

This similar discussion on S.O seems to give some insight https://meta.stackoverflow.com/ques...

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"...you could also have gained points if the deleted user had instead downvoted (- -) your posts; I am sure you wouldn't protest such reversals as vehemently."

Personally, I think the removal of ++'s after account deletion makes the platform spam free.
If the removal is fair for - - it's also fair for ++

I don't think ++ should go. But I would like a list of who opted out.

@cafebabe To be honest, I quite like it. There's something "peaceful" in knowing there'd be (almost) no trace left if you choose to delete your account.

@NoMad that's absolutely not gdpr-friendly.

Lol imagine if @-red left one day without any explanation.

Maybe not a log of deleted accounts, but if you truly care about ++ so much (I literally have no idea if my score goes up or down because I don't care) maybe something like stack overflow has where it tells you why you got ++ or -- recently. One of those could just be (Deleted account) but not give the username or anything (Obviously a deleted user wants their information gone, so displaying their username would be counter intuitive)

But honestly I think the whole score thing isn't enough to warrant such development costs. Just participate in the community, that's what it's all about

@Frederick devRant uses Neo4j, so...