Ask HN: Any way to deactivate your Hacker News account?

[mikewhy]

The recent threads regarding KF have made me realize this site is not one I'd like to associate with.

[texaslonghorn5]

Honestly this post is probably going to be counterproductive to your goal.

Better strategy is probably to email the admin team [e-mail]

[cratermoon]

We try not to delete entire account histories because that would gut the threads the account had participated in. However, we care about protecting individual users and take care of privacy requests every day, so if we can help, please email [e-mail]. We don't want anyone to get in trouble from anything they posted to HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

[troymc]

If an HN user is a citizen of an EU country, then it's my understanding that the GDPR requires you to comply with their request for account deletion.

[bawolff]

I have never understood why people always want to delete accounts instead of just stopping visiting sites they dont like anymore and moving on with life.

[mmsnberbar66]

opsec, data privacy, paranoia, etc

[joshxyz]

No, you're forever stuck in here with us in dang's 7th circle of hell

Edit: just making yall laugh folks, i dont know about that kf yet

[feet]

OP, I understand your sentiment and am inclined to agree. Support of such a site is appalling.

But I would also urge you to consider that people who feel like us leaving may make the HN community worse, as the percentage of people who support things like KF will be in greater percentage.

Perhaps using pseudo anonymous accounts and naming may help, that's what I do as I try to keep my online and real life partitioned

[onphonenow]

What does KF have to do with HN?

[melonrusk]

Nothing, this is just how the New Faith attacks - you will be asked to approve of their previous attacks, and any failure to do so will be used to make you "those evil guys who supported the evil guys we destroyed before". Then when HN is destroyed, someone will complain about that, and so the cycle continues.

[srvmshr]

Could HN admins help unvote stray likes (which happened accidentally) to stories and comments.

[Bakary]

Perhaps I am misunderstanding your question, but there is an unvote button for this purpose. It does disappear after a while.

[throw03172019]

What is KF?

[AnimalMuppet]

Kiwi Farms, I suspect.

[bobsmooth]

Why?

[detritus]

As always with this kind of post: attention.