From an admin perspective: I haven’t actually done it, but deleting an account appears to be somewhere between a trivial amount of effort (if the user hasn’t really posted) or a meaningful amount of effort (if the user has posted a lot, especially if they’ve started threads). I don’t like extra effort and, like olink, definitely don’t like being involved in drama. So I’m opposed as an admin. [Unless it’s a new user whose only posts are horse porn or obvious scam attempts.]
That being said, most of my opposition to deleting accounts is from a regular user perspective. Deleting accounts damages the site. I’ve often searched old threads for various reasons, and every missing post makes the site incrementally worse. Obviously more damaging is the threads that can disappear if a user is deleted without the admin being very careful to preserve those threads.
I also (naively) think that having a policy where we delete users upon request gives people just a little more license to be assholes, knowing that if they go too far, they can just ask for their offending posts to be deleted. I don’t think that’s great. (Maybe this is silly, I don’t know - I’m an academic, so I often imagine that silly things are really important.)
I didn’t vote in the poll because I’m not sure if I like the proposed rule because it goes in the right direction or I don’t like it because it makes account deletions too possible; I don’t actually think they should be subject to popular vote.
Putting my admin hat back on - I think the current settings allow users to edit their posts within 30 days. So obviously the individual user can edit any sensitive posts within that window. Beyond that window, if someone identifies individual posts that have personal/sensitive information that the user no longer wants to appear on this site, I’m happy to edit those individual posts for them.