Make deleted accounts visible to moderators

[RicoElectrico]

Description

Hi, There is a vandal that - as means of evasion and obfuscation - deletes his sock-puppet accounts after receiving a permanent ban, which makes it hard to track of changesets and discussions under them (Pascal Neis' site won't show discussions on deleted users' changsesets).

It'd be useful in the future for mods to be able to browse such profiles.

Example: https://www.openstreetmap.org/user_blocks/4958 https://www.openstreetmap.org/user_blocks/5315 https://www.openstreetmap.org/user_blocks/5302 https://www.openstreetmap.org/user_blocks/5301 https://www.openstreetmap.org/user_blocks/5300 https://www.openstreetmap.org/user_blocks/5264 https://www.openstreetmap.org/user_blocks/5263 https://www.openstreetmap.org/user_blocks/5262 https://www.openstreetmap.org/user_blocks/4876 https://www.openstreetmap.org/user_blocks/5849 https://www.openstreetmap.org/user_blocks/6110

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[mmd-osm]

Is this issue still relevant now that we have a 7 day cool down period, in which a user cannot delete their account after their last edit?

[SomeoneElseOSM]

Is this issue still relevant now that we have a 7 day cool down period, in which a user cannot delete their account after their last edit?

Yes, just to take the first example on the list above, if I want to investigate edits by the user blocked in https://www.openstreetmap.org/user_blocks/4958 it's still a pain.

Also, what version is live? https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/blob/master/config/settings.yml#L59 is null.

[mmd-osm]

It's in chef, and 7 *24 hours: https://github.com/openstreetmap/chef/blob/7b5bc04fbe3cd59686c9660aae8a66b890e27724/cookbooks/web/recipes/rails.rb#L151