Ask HN: Will HN allow account and comment deletions?

Re:Ask HN: Will HN allow account and comment deletions? by zaroth on Wednesday March 28, 2018 @01:05PM (#16699539)

I read the whole thing and all I came away with is that basically no one has a fucking clue if it applies, if it does apply technically does it even matter, and if it does matter how it’s supposed to work without fucking up the site.

Yay GDPR!

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Re:Ask HN: Will HN allow account and comment deletions? by x0x0 on Wednesday March 28, 2018 @01:18PM (#16699690)

Most of the deletion requirement for a user could probably be satisfied by removing the username from the posts. And not just for display, but in the db. If the data can't be recalled for a user, then (by my reading) that clears the GDPR requirement.

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Re:Ask HN: Will HN allow account and comment deletions? by mattmanser on Wednesday March 28, 2018 @04:20PM (#16701532)

Comments have personally identifiable information in too, it really doesn't sound like it's enough.

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Re:Ask HN: Will HN allow account and comment deletions? by x0x0 on Wednesday March 28, 2018 @06:32PM (#16702639)

how many comments list their own name? Very very few.

Other comments may refer to you but you have no gdpr privacy rights over that.

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Re:Ask HN: Will HN allow account and comment deletions? by stagbeetle on Wednesday March 28, 2018 @02:05PM (#16700167)

> I read the whole thing and all I came away with is that basically no one has a fucking clue

Careful! You may be onto something here.

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Re:Ask HN: Will HN allow account and comment deletions? by throwaway4719 on Wednesday March 28, 2018 @01:43PM (#16699947)

I assume you were being sarcastic, but in this aspect, I actually think the GDPR is great. At least for Europeans.

(The fact that people will find a way of disagreeing about pretty much anything online is a whole other matter.)

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