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What do you mean, these sorts of requests? If you mean deleting ownership data as is the case here - that's incredibly problematic and erodes trust in the site

• dang 6y ago
  Privacy-related requests. Because we don't delete entire account histories [1, 2], we do other things to help. That might include randomizing a username or otherwise renaming the account, deleting or redacting sensitive information, reassigning particular posts to random usernames, and more. We try to find a fair balance between the different interests involved; individuals' need for protection, other commenters' interest in having the context of their comments preserved, the community interest in preserving its archive, and so on. I don't know what you mean by "incredibly problematic" etc., but if you think we should send such users away without recourse, that's an extreme position which a large proportion of the community would disagree with you about, especially as the pendulum of opinion has been swinging in the pro-privacy direction for years now. People frequently flame us for not doing more to delete history. Just to repeat what I've already said a couple times today, we don't make any distinction between users who make these sorts of requests. We try our best to be as consistent as possible, and whether they're a YC founder or not doesn't enter into it. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6813226 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6813226