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Would it be possible to let users delete their account and when users delete their accounts you could override all PII with a "default" value? It's meeting user
by imheretolearn 6y ago
Would it be possible to let users delete their account and when users delete their accounts you could override all PII with a "default" value? It's meeting users midway where their comments are still visible and threads are not gutted but they are not associated with their PII anymore?
- dang 6y agoI'm afraid I don't understand. Can you explain in a different way?
- imheretolearn 6y agoWhen users delete their account, instead of deleting the content/comments they submitted, you could replace the deleted user's username with the value [deleted], replace the IP address, email address and any other PII collected about the user with the value [deleted]. That way the threads remain intact and the content is not associated with the users anymore.
- dang 6y agoOk, I think I understand. We wouldn't replace all such usernames with [deleted], for reasons I explain here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23624019 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23624019. But we randomize them, and if that's not enough, there are sometimes other things we can do.
- imheretolearn 6y agoI didn't know this. Thank you for pointing it out.