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HN has anonymous accounts and personally identifiable information can be hidden or removed by the user, which to me has the same effect. HN complains to me that
by raxxorrax 5y ago
HN has anonymous accounts and personally identifiable information can be hidden or removed by the user, which to me has the same effect. HN complains to me that I cannot reset my pwd if I ever forget it because I didn't even share my mail.
People often claim anonymous platforms are doomed to fail but I think social media is the main problem currently.
- mattowen_uk 5y agoI changed my HN username earlier this year for reasons. However if you search HN via the Algolia search link at the bottom of this page, you can still find my old posts under my old username. Not to mention the 1,000s of self-hosted HN scrapers out there.
- gonehome 5y agoYou can email dang and they'll work with you depending on what privacy stuff you need, but yeah it's a manual process. People have changed the users on old comments they no longer want associated with themselves and such. There was discussion a while back about it (I haven't taken advantage of this myself).
- asdff 5y ago>removed by the user Only within a certain timeframe. Unlike reddit eventually your comments are no longer deletable or editable by you, and you have to email the webmaster in this case to ask for an old comment to be manually deleted, its not even an automated mechanism.
- raxxorrax 5y agoTrue. But the associated user might not be identifiable and I think you are free to edit any details here any time. You cannot really do much with raxxorrax or asdff.