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They have to pay for servers somehow. Selling long dead channel handles is better than privacy invasion.
by brink 4y ago
They have to pay for servers somehow. Selling long dead channel handles is better than privacy invasion.
- duskwuff 4y agoIt's not better when it comes at the cost of taking some of those handles away from people that were using them.
- jaywalk 4y agoBut they weren't using them. That's the whole point.
- ls15 4y ago@pg hasn't posted on HN for two years. Can I have his username?
- brink 4y ago@pg is paying for the servers
- ls15 4y agoBut he does not need the account name, right? However, Aaron Swartz is not paying for reddit servers anymore, can I have u/AaronSw then? Has been inactive for 10 years.
- NayamAmarshe 4y agoYou can't claim reddit usernames but you can claim inactive Subreddits by contacting the mods.
- duskwuff 4y agoThere are a number of situations I'm personally aware of where users had usernames revoked for channels they were actively using. One common case where this occurred is when users used a channel as a "bio" or "blog", and posted to the channel infrequently to update it.