Every story and comment from the Hacker News API, in a layout borrowed from 2001.
A comment on Google users locked out after 15 years' use. Parent comment
Right, but removing an offending comment can easily be done indepenently of any other action against the account.
>the optics of false positives being held to ransom to get their account back is terrible.
That's true and I had that thought as well, but it's clearly the lesser evil compared to stories of people losing irreplaceable data.
>many accounts aren't easily verifiable.
True, but as I said, users could be given an option to make their account easily verifiable.
There are no comments on this comment yet.
Right, but removing an offending comment can easily be done indepenently of any other action against the account.
>the optics of false positives being held to ransom to get their account back is terrible.
That's true and I had that thought as well, but it's clearly the lesser evil compared to stories of people losing irreplaceable data.
>many accounts aren't easily verifiable.
True, but as I said, users could be given an option to make their account easily verifiable.