That's correct. HN generally doesn't remove entire account histories, because that would gut the threads the account had participated in, which is unfair to the commenters who replied. Our goal is to balance community needs with individual needs. pg wrote about this many years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6813226. That doesn't mean we don't care about individual requests. We take care of them every day. For example, we can randomize usernames and disable accounts, and we also frequently delete or redact specific posts that people are worried about.
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That's correct. HN generally doesn't remove entire account histories, because that would gut the threads the account had participated in, which is unfair to the commenters who replied. Our goal is to balance community needs with individual needs. pg wrote about this many years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6813226. That doesn't mean we don't care about individual requests. We take care of them every day. For example, we can randomize usernames and disable accounts, and we also frequently delete or redact specific posts that people are worried about.