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Hacker News doesn't delete accounts. You're out of luck.
by kick 7y ago
Hacker News doesn't delete accounts. You're out of luck.
- dudul 7y agoIs that true? I saw a comment fairly recently mentioning that one just had to contact an admin to delete an account.
- kick 7y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19459658 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19459658 dang: We delete comments for people nearly every day. It's true that we don't allow wholesale deletion of account histories, because that would gut the threads the account had participated in. But we also don't want anyone to get in trouble from anything they posted to HN. The idea is to balance the need to preserve history (community interest) and the need to protect users (individual interest). We don't get there perfectly, but I can tell you for sure that the vast majority of people who ask us about this end up happy with how we help them.
- carty76ers 7y agoGDPR?
- kick 7y agoJudging by your username, you aren't European.
- megamindbrian2 7y agoYeah, that's my best defence. Right to forget in the EU. HN is operating illegally. Even Facebook has a permanently delete feature now.