Ask HN: Why can't we delete our accounts or remove old posts?

Re:Ask HN: Why can't we delete our accounts or remove old po... by philtar on Tuesday August 04, 2015 @08:30PM (#10007329)

Wow the hypocrisy is unbelievable. Any other website would have been chided, chewed and spit out by the community if they didn't let you delete your posts (even if they are just hiding them). But because HN is doing it it's suddenly OK? 4 out 5 comments at the time I wrote this support the inability to delete an account.

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Re:Ask HN: Why can't we delete our accounts or remove old po... by SamReidHughes on Wednesday August 05, 2015 @07:38AM (#10009030)

> Any other website would have been chided, chewed and spit out by the community if they didn't let you delete your posts

I don't believe this. I've never seen criticisms of other forums for this. Why do you believe this?

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Re:Ask HN: Why can't we delete our accounts or remove old po... by philtar on Friday August 07, 2015 @10:30AM (#10022661)

So if suddenly facebook didn't let you delete your posts that would be ok?

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Re:Ask HN: Why can't we delete our accounts or remove old po... by SamReidHughes on Saturday August 08, 2015 @01:21AM (#10026432)

> So if suddenly facebook didn't let you delete your posts that would be ok?

This question has, and my answer to this question would have, absolutely nothing to do with my response or your previous post, which are about what Hacker News commenters would say about other websites.

Nor would what they (or I) think about one particular website tell us what they (or I) think about "any other website." And if you were to pick a specific one as an example, a more appropriate choice would be another discussion forum, not a social network.

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Re:Ask HN: Why can't we delete our accounts or remove old po... by jasonkester on Wednesday August 05, 2015 @06:27AM (#10008817)

No hypocrisy at all. That's the golden rule: Don't put things on the Internet that you do not want to be on the Internet. That way, there won't be anything you've put on the internet that you didn't want to be on the internet.

As true today as it was back in Usenet days (which also had no mechanism for deleting your entire post history).

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Re:Ask HN: Why can't we delete our accounts or remove old po... by stephengillie on Friday August 07, 2015 @01:25PM (#10023669)

HN doesn't support the Right To Be Forgotten?

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