Surely you're joking, Skype • Hacker News Board

Re: Surely you're joking, Skype

#11

Post by anderiv » Thu, Jun 11, 2015, 7:59 PM UTC

jmkni wrote: post #9

burkaman wrote: post #7

http://justdelete.me/ is a good site for looking up these policies. Skype is bad, but not quite in the "Impossible" tier with sites like YouTube, Wikipedia, and Hacker News.

IIRC StackExchange is the same

On SE, you can delete your identifiable information, turning your username into one of the generic "userXXXXXX" names. All of the content you've produced remains, though.

Re: Surely you're joking, Skype

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Post by Vexs » Thu, Jun 11, 2015, 8:58 PM UTC

anderiv wrote: post #11

jmkni wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

IIRC StackExchange is the same

On SE, you can delete your identifiable information, turning your username into one of the generic "userXXXXXX" names. All of the content you've produced remains, though.

Which is really great. I hate looking for some obscure problem, find where someone posted a fix online, then discover the account of the fixer was deleted and the fix is gone now. Even worse when it's a program or file or something...

Re: Surely you're joking, Skype

#13

Post by Vexs » Thu, Jun 11, 2015, 8:58 PM UTC

anderiv wrote: post #11

jmkni wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

IIRC StackExchange is the same

On SE, you can delete your identifiable information, turning your username into one of the generic "userXXXXXX" names. All of the content you've produced remains, though.

Which is really great. I hate looking for some obscure problem, find where someone posted a fix online, then discover the account of the fixer was deleted and the fix is gone now. Even worse when it's a program or file or something...

Re: Surely you're joking, Skype

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Post by burkaman » Thu, Jun 11, 2015, 9:30 PM UTC

jmkni wrote: post #9

burkaman wrote: post #7

http://justdelete.me/ is a good site for looking up these policies. Skype is bad, but not quite in the "Impossible" tier with sites like YouTube, Wikipedia, and Hacker News.

IIRC StackExchange is the same

According to justdelete.me, "If you haven't posted on the site, it's just one click. Otherwise, edit your 'About Me' bio to say 'please delete me' then contact support."