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Re: Ask HN: Any way to deactivate your Hacker News account?

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Post by cratermoon »

We try not to delete entire account histories because that would gut the threads the account had participated in. However, we care about protecting individual users and take care of privacy requests every day, so if we can help, please email hn@ycombinator.com. We don't want anyone to get in trouble from anything they posted to HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

Re: Ask HN: Any way to deactivate your Hacker News account?

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Post by AnimalMuppet »

aaaaaaaaata wrote: post #8
AnimalMuppet wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Kiwi Farms, I suspect.

Is that something people should or shouldn't be Bing-ing?

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.

Re: Ask HN: Any way to deactivate your Hacker News account?

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Post by troymc »

cratermoon wrote: post #4

We try not to delete entire account histories because that would gut the threads the account had participated in. However, we care about protecting individual users and take care of privacy requests every day, so if we can help, please email hn@ycombinator.com. We don't want anyone to get in trouble from anything they posted to HN. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

If an HN user is a citizen of an EU country, then it's my understanding that the GDPR requires you to comply with their request for account deletion.
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