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

by mikewhy on 9/5/22, 1:59 AM with 30 comments

• by texaslonghorn5 on 9/5/22, 2:10 AM

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

  Better strategy is probably to email the admin team hn@ycombinator.com

• by cratermoon on 9/5/22, 2:09 AM

  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 hn@ycombinator.com. We don't want anyone to get in trouble from anything they posted to HN.

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

• by bawolff on 9/5/22, 8:06 AM

  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.

• by joshxyz on 9/5/22, 4:47 AM

  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

• by feet on 9/5/22, 11:38 AM

  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

• by onphonenow on 9/5/22, 5:44 AM

  What does KF have to do with HN?

• by srvmshr on 9/5/22, 11:16 AM

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

• by throw03172019 on 9/5/22, 2:07 AM

  What is KF?

• by bobsmooth on 9/5/22, 5:32 AM

  Why?