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You guys must have massive sites.  I recently became owner of a forum which has existed for 13 years, has ~4M posts, and has always been closed off to search and mostly closed off to guest viewing.  The first decision I made was it up to search and open it up to guest viewing.  Quite a few members didn't like the changes.  I notified the entire membership that because I understood that these changes were unsettling to many members who expected a higher degree of privacy, that I would delete the entire content of anyone who wanted that as a result of the TOS change.  Only one member asked me to do it, and he had 11 posts.

My second largest site has about 8 years and 1M posts.  In the history of that site, maybe 4 or 5 members have asked me to delete all their content.  One of them had a lot of posts.  To me, not such a big deal.  To me, older threads are less important than newer ones anyway.