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> If Reddit or Facebook didn't allow you to delete your account or comments and said it wanted to maintain a permanent record of you, they would get eviscerated
by inimino 7y ago
> If Reddit or Facebook didn't allow you to delete your account or comments and said it wanted to maintain a permanent record of you, they would get eviscerated.
By whom?
There's always a danger of falsely claiming a double standard when in fact you're just trying to judge one community by the standards of another.
- skinnymuch 7y agoBy most HN comments. That’s patently obvious if you have been around HN for even a month.
- inimino 7y agoRight. But HN is a public website and not a walled garden. If Facebook were open to everyone with an internet connection and had no direct or private messages or anything secret I think you'd see a similar standard applied there.
- skinnymuch 7y agoI was responding to the “by whom”. Reddit has a lot of that stuff and their geeky subreddits have the same amount of complaints of FB as HN. There likely is some overlap of users as well. And most likely overlap of the sort of users. There’s no standard being applied at reddit.