[jacquesm]

I did just that with Twitter. But HN plays it smarter, you can't delete your account. But one of these days...

[ycombinete]

I've had this with other platforms before:

  - Change your account email. 
  - Change HN password with password generator (don't' record it)
  - Log out.

The account and info are still there, but at least you can't get in! Obviously if they later introduce account deletion you've retroactively made a small mistake.

[codetrotter]

Why leave HN though? It’s nice here

[jacquesm]

It is. But it also eats up time, and that's your most finite resource.

[coldtea]

Relaxation and contentment (times when you don't feel the urge to be productive) is actually the most finite resource.

[jacquesm]

That's a fair point. Off to play the piano :) (thanks for the reminder)

[actionfromafar]

Changed my password to a really long random string.

Still, here I am with a new account…

[DonHopkins]

HN could milk the whales by monetizing deleting your account and individual posts. The higher your karma, the more it costs.

[jacquesm]

Hehe, don't give them any ideas. How are you otherwise? I should come and visit. Or you should come and visit. Or both!

[tough]

If you really wanna, you can ask manually for deletion and they will do their best to comply if you justify why you need to delete it.

[jacquesm]

It shouldn't need justification though. And it really should be automated.

Apparently the YC lawyers are convinced that the current mechanism is GDPR compliant, I'm not so sure about that.

[tough]

I guess their lawyers ignore the GDPR because they are not a business doing business with europeans.

If this forum had any kind of paid offerings this might differ, but what do you want, them to block the whole EU a la Threads/Bard?

As I understand it, this is due to the limitations of current (mod) tools, and justification just means you have to provide a human for some good reason to do -free work- for you. Like fearing being doxxed or whatever.

I dunno, I'm a happy member of this forum and I appreciate dang and how the moderation works here, it could be better and automated but this is a small niche tech forum after all and not some giant social media network

[jacquesm]

> I guess their lawyers ignore the GDPR because they are not a business doing business with europeans.

That's not how the GDPR works. The GDPR does not kick in when there is a commercial transaction, it kicks in when you're talking about data, specifically data provided by EU subjects.

[tough]

You can also actually just ask dang for it via email, and if you've good reasons for it they will remove it.

[petemir]

Why should you have a good reason? It's your data, fullstop.

[tough]

Because there's no automated system, (and I guess, since there's not lots of requests, no need for it)

And so for you to want to utilise a finite resource (moderation time) for something that should benefit you, you better have a good reason for it?

Why should companies go above and beyond to comply with laws that don't affect their country or business doings?

The only reason a US company might comply with EU directives, is if they plan to do business in the EU, not if they're storing data or not from an European citizen

[adql]

The content generated by you benefits the site tho