If an account is deleted it would either be removed or replaced with anon(somenumbershere). If the account is locked you wont be able to access their page but it will still show anywhere their name was linked such as on a submission of theirs or subscriber list. In either case you can remove any account from your subscriber list, deleted/locked/active by adding them to your block list via copy and paste, you can immediately unblock them if you wish and it wont resub them.
Also more recently the ability for users to delete their own account has been added to the settings page, we do still get a fair amount of tickets about it however.
As far as the idea, Cyp may go for it, cant really speak to that, but I dont personally think it is needed for banned accounts, only deleted accounts if it doesnt already do that. Banned users can still use the site to view content and I believe can interact with it in every way a non banned user can besides commenting. They are only restricted from adding to the site due to their inability to follow rules, not consuming content on the site (cant really do much about that anyways). Additionally this would hurt users who are temp banned as well, or users who are mistakenly banned or even appeal their bans.
The idea that it artificially inflates the sub count to leave these there is also maybe a bit poorly worded for what you might have meant. As long as those users were legitimately subscribing at one point, even if they left the site now, it was not artificial boosting, simply inactive subscribers. This is a problem for any long running community with any sort of follower count. If you look at older youtube channels whose views have fallen off despite sub count not decreasing it shows the same sort of thing on a larger scale, although there is definitely far more actual artificial sub increasing due to the size of the site compared to ours, more botting and other illegitimate stuff going on there.
Status: Open
Opened by ZappyGru
Remove Deleted/Banned Accounts From Subscribers List