[nfnaaron]

This problem was very easy to fix: move his account to another server. It took an amount of one blog post to trigger the solution. He got special attention.

Remember that facebook non-deleted picture discussed yesterday?

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1400128

It's 404 now. I suspect (purely guessing) they specifically took that one picture down, but did not also "solve" the problem that left it there in the first place.

I quit a social network a few years ago, but they would not delete my account. So I logged in and changed my name to something like NameOfSocialNetworkRefusesToDeleteMyAccount. And vi-ola, the account disappeared in a day or so.

The embarrassing wheel gets the grease.

[drusenko]

don't mean to be a (french) grammar nazi, but it's spelled "voilà"

"voila" (without the accent) would be perfectly acceptable as well.

sorry! :)

[nfnaaron]

"don't mean to be a (french) grammar nazi"

Would that be a grammar Vichy?

"it's spelled "voilà"

Right. The dash was in there to emphasize mispronunciation of a mis-spelled word, to indicate mock astonishment in context.

Thanks. :)

[philwelch]

Yeah, "viola" is a small musical instrument.

[pavs]

Its a temp solution to his problem so that they can shut him up and work on the actual problem. They still have to find a solution to the problem.

[nfnaaron]

My point exactly.