> HN’s response was no, because that would “gut the threads the account had participated in”
I participate at Flyertalk, and a good friend of mine had a major falling-out with them a few years ago.
As a leaving gift, he wrote a script to edit every single comment he'd ever made over the [many] years he'd been contributing, to remove his many many thousands of comments.
As a result, there are thousands of removed comments, and of course, many thousands of threads which are, well, gutted.
In our new GDPR-aware world, isn't that his right?
I participate at Flyertalk, and a good friend of mine had a major falling-out with them a few years ago.
As a leaving gift, he wrote a script to edit every single comment he'd ever made over the [many] years he'd been contributing, to remove his many many thousands of comments.
As a result, there are thousands of removed comments, and of course, many thousands of threads which are, well, gutted.
In our new GDPR-aware world, isn't that his right?