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If only the same freedom existed across all platforms. Like say HN. I do find it frustrating that the same freedom isn't accorded to you here.
by cik 5y ago
If only the same freedom existed across all platforms. Like say HN. I do find it frustrating that the same freedom isn't accorded to you here.
- knolax 5y agoDang please delete my account.
- TeMPOraL 5y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html CTRL+F "delete"
- cik 5y agoI already know - it's not quite a thing. It would be possible to delete the account and not the content. Frankly, who cares if it guts a thread. Individuals whose opinions change over time, or desire said privacy should have the opportunity to fully eliminate their presence.
- TeMPOraL 5y agoWe can agree to disagree on that. Individual opinions may change over time, but if expressed publicly in a community settings, they become a part of history of that community and its discussions. I think disassociating usernames from comments without purging the comments hits the right balance. Different people and communities may choose otherwise. On that note, I wish websites, in particular and especially HN, were a bit more up-front about this. Here, the information about moderators' approach to account deletion is somewhat buried - it's at the bottom of FAQ, and important clarifications are another link away. In general, I wish all community-hosting websites put information like this front-and-center during registration, not buried in an inscrutable ToS, so that users could make an informed choice before joining (or at least as much of an informed choice as you can make, if the choice will be binding a decade later).
- RHSeeger 5y agoI care if it guts a thread. Maybe add the ability to disconnect an account from a specific comment.
- cik 5y agoSure- how about instead of delete s/username/redact. Soft delete and replace X person's username with redacted<id>. I assume the display costs are then similar.
- Sebb767 5y agoDeleting them on HN does not delete them from the internet. Sites like Ceddit already save/archive deleted comments from Reddit (and make some old threads readable, especially when the poster of the solution deleted his account for unrelated reasons). If HN would bring on this policy, we would get a "CN" within a day; probably even something more complete than ceddit due to the smaller scale. So, in the end, it would only make HN a worse place.