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You can create a special deleted user account, and that claims ownership of FK relations that would break things. But then a lot of relational datastores aimed at Big Data (tm, rights reserved, patent pending) don't do super well at updates.



GitHub does that for comments with the Ghost user [0] for example

[0] https://github.com/ghost




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