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Ask HN: Why doesn't HN support post or account deletion?
In addition to the fact views can change, or someone might have other concerns. (Ex: maybe they didn't plan for being forced to disclose their social media at the border when making legal political speech), doesn't GDPR require it (at least for EU citizens)?
(It's my understanding that HN comments are permanent, absent a short edit/delete period and accounts aren't deletable, if either is incorrect please feel free to let me know in the comments :) )
- mtmail 7y agoThe question came up a couple of days ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20052076 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20052076 and of course last year. Moderators have never commented afaik, they rarely do on feature requests.
- Ultramanoid 7y agoBut this is not a feature request, it's a legal question. Which will keep coming up, and hopefully does not create a situation that becomes unpleasant news before somebody from HN addresses it.
- dontbenebby 7y agoYes, if someone from the EU decided to press the issue it could cost a lot of $ - probably more than it would cost to come into compliance. (Compliance with laws is not a "feature request")