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	by brink 1330 days ago
	They have to pay for servers somehow. Selling long dead channel handles is better than privacy invasion.

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It's not better when it comes at the cost of taking some of those handles away from people that were using them.

But they weren't using them. That's the whole point.

There are a number of situations I'm personally aware of where users had usernames revoked for channels they were actively using.

One common case where this occurred is when users used a channel as a "bio" or "blog", and posted to the channel infrequently to update it.

@pg hasn't posted on HN for two years. Can I have his username?

@pg is paying for the servers

But he does not need the account name, right?

However, Aaron Swartz is not paying for reddit servers anymore, can I have u/AaronSw then? Has been inactive for 10 years.

You can't claim reddit usernames but you can claim inactive Subreddits by contacting the mods.