FYI in case anyone else thought this was a vBulletin bug

Well, it seems both unbelieveable and highly unlikely that the technical issues raised bythe board in question, would in fact be true.

I find it hard to believe that someone with professed PHP and MySQL skills at such a high level would have any difficulty with the removal of member accounts. Given that the technical reasons are not impossible to get around (far from it in fact, given that the board has deleted several member accounts in the past without apparent problem)

If that is not the case, then that leads one to only several conclusions....

1. The Admin choses not to remove the accounts because it would truly reflect the state of said board, and not reflect well on him.

2. The Admin has a perculiar and persistent grudge against the individual members and won't remove them out of spite.

3. The Admin has a very poor understanding of his legal obligation to remove people from lists whereby email is sent to members and individuals...upon request.

4. The Admin does not realise he is in breach of Federal US misrepresentation laws, whereby, he is misrepresenting people as being members of his forum, when they are not, have never been members of his current forum....And then bans them when they come online to request removal???


Any way you look at it, it is completely unprofessional and irresponsible behaviour from supposed "professionals" (as the staff members of the board in question claim to be) if any member of my staff acted that way they would be removed immediately from staff and from the forums.