[headShrinker]

If my comments are not handy, delete them. If they are handy then I deserve compensation. If I created it I can destroy it. If I created it and was not compensated then I maintain ownership and copyright control. Delete them now! This has been fought in courts and won.

[drdeca]

The legal notes at https://www.ycombinator.com/legal/#tou say "By uploading any User Content you hereby grant and will grant Y Combinator and its affiliated companies a nonexclusive, worldwide, royalty free, fully paid up, transferable, sublicensable, perpetual, irrevocable license to copy, display, upload, perform, distribute, store, modify and otherwise use your User Content for any Y Combinator-related purpose in any form, medium or technology now known or later developed. " .

If you do not wish your User Content to be displayed, I recommend that you do not upload it to the site.

[disclaimer to avoid any possible appearance of pretending to be affiliated with the site in any way beyond just being a user of it, goes here]

[scantis]

Most HN users are circumventing copyright restriction and paywalls to make content available to a wider audience. Weirdly enough they draw the line with citations, this is why so many projects are attributed to weird internet nicks.

Usually doxxing those nicks wouldn't result in financial compensation, but lots of legal trouble.

What you want is fringe and confusion to me, especially in this context. You control your nick and your comments are attributed to it.

If somebody else uses your comments for something useful, they can cite your nick.

[headShrinker]

Irrelevant to our concerns here. What other people do with other information is not my concern. What HN does with my information is of direct concern and legal consequence.

[Andys]

Your compensation is participation in the forum; you benefit from everyone else posting content.

[headShrinker]

That’s not compensation. That’s companionship. There’s a difference.

(Look Dang, no name calling)