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Re: How to easily delete your online accounts

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Post by dkokelley » Fri, Jun 10, 2011, 8:23 PM UTC

futurephonic wrote: post #10

In a lot of cases apps don't delete your account, they just mark you deleted.

In some cases it's a performance thing. Instead of deleting the entire table with user X's info, they just flip a value in the deleted/disabled table column. If they really want to delete it they can run a batch job later.

Then again, it might have as much to do with reactivating accounts as it does with server performance.

Re: How to easily delete your online accounts

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Post by kilburn » Fri, Jun 10, 2011, 10:18 PM UTC

I've got a landing page in "spanish".

The translation is so bad that I would never ever use their service. Hint: you should never use google translate to provide localizaed versions of your website.

For those who did not get it: your dog speaks insert language here better than google translate does. Seriously.

Re: How to easily delete your online accounts

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Post by qq66 » Fri, Jun 10, 2011, 11:14 PM UTC

mestudent wrote: post #8

shii wrote: post #5

You can't delete your account on HN btw. You can get banned, but your posts and profile remain.

I believe pg sometimes deletes accounts if you email him.

It's not clear that you should have the ability to delete your old posts. They have often become part of a conversation that is no longer yours alone.

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