Could HN admins help unvote stray likes (which happened accidentally) to stories and comments.
Perhaps I am misunderstanding your question, but there is an unvote button for this purpose. It does disappear after a while.
Ask HN: Any way to deactivate your Hacker News account?
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Re: Ask HN: Any way to deactivate your Hacker News account?
#32Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's not NSFW (as far as I know). It's far worse. It seems to be a web forum that's into harassing minorities, sometimes to the point of suicide. Worse, it may be harassment with the intent of causing suicide. It's appalling.
How is it relevant to hacker news?
I take it you've missed out on Hacker News' meltdown du jour:
Blocking Kiwifarms[0] (approaching 2k comments)
Kiwifarms Response to Cloudflare[1] (approaching 500 comments)
Kiwifarms Is Down Across All Domains[2]
Kiwi Farms: Anti-trans stalkers chasing Keffals around the world[3]
Cloudflare Pressured to drop Kiwifarms after latest doxxing effort[4]
BSNES author Byuu bullied to suicide by Kiwifarms[5]
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32706673
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32722950
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32722950
[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32706292
Re: Ask HN: Any way to deactivate your Hacker News account?
#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's been in the news, and subject to much HN commentary: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32661638 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32706673 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32711475
Oh, I see... Well, there is a sort of alarmingly high number of people defending what appears be a cesspool of hate and bigotry.
Not exactly (at least I hope not). I think they're defending the rights of cesspools to still have freedom of speech.
(Except it's not government restrictions, so it's not exactly First-Amendment-style free speech.)
(And, in defending KF's right to be on the internet, they're defending other businesses being required to carry them, which is... free speech for KF but not for people like Cloudflare.)
Re: Ask HN: Any way to deactivate your Hacker News account?
#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
This makes me wonder, does archive.org comply with GDPR?
At least, for domains that you own, yes they do. I have asked them once to remove some links from the archive because of accidental private data being exposed. The process was fast and straightforward: 1- Add a page or DNS record proving that you own the domain 2- Email receipts showing that you owned the domain for the requested range 3- Wait 24 hours
They also comply with this for social media accounts on domains you don't own if you can show somehow that it's your account. In my case, it was enough to email archive.org with a Twitter profile exclusion request with the same email I publicly listed in said Twitter profile.
For my domain, it was also enough to email them from the email address listed on my site's contact page without any DNS changes.
Re: Ask HN: Any way to deactivate your Hacker News account?
#35What does KF have to do with HN?
Nothing, this is just how the New Faith attacks - you will be asked to approve of their previous attacks, and any failure to do so will be used to make you "those
evil guys who supported the evil guys we destroyed before". Then when HN is destroyed, someone will complain about that, and so the cycle continues.