> There is double standard favoring HN. The term "double standard" means two standards are applied to two different things (or group of things) when the differ

> There is double standard favoring HN. The term "double standard" means two standards are applied to two different things (or group of things) when the differences between the two things are irrelevant to the standard. "You're not allowed to play baseball because you are a girl, but your brother can because he is a boy" is a double standard because gender has no relevance to playing baseball. Whether a site should programmatically allow the deletion of accounts/comments is surely related to how they handle the collection and pursuit of PII. HN quite obviously is not the same as Facebook in that regard, and unlike the baseball example, that behavior is relevant to the standard being applied. That said, I could get behind a mechanism where a user can, one-time, change their username, with the effect of disabling their account forever. This would allow people who use their real name[0] as their username to change it to something pseudonymous, without allowing some of the less social behavior a more open name changing system would allow. [0] - I'm not the 'real' Clark Griswold. Sorry. :)