Users able to close accounts?

[BlueNinjaGo]

I've had a couple users ask to have their accounts closed (children being childish)... and I didn't want to ban them in case they wished to return... (and because we don't want to seem like overly-strict moderators)....

As a solution I created a usergroup "Closed" (so they can view threads but do nothing else) and made it joinable... Thus allowing them to join it and have it "closed"...

Does Vbulletin have a built in option for this? Or is my temporary solution going to be permanent?

[Lynne]

What is it you want to happen? Your solution sounds fine if the end result is what you want (the users to only view threads).