<story><title>Just Delete Me – A directory of direct links to delete your account</title><url>https://backgroundchecks.org/justdeleteme/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>have_faith</author><text>&amp;gt; Hacker News&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Impossible&lt;p&gt;Not sure how I feel about this one. I think it&amp;#x27;s a nice gesture to respect someones wishes to delete their contributions regardless of the technical fact of external archives etc.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>numakerg</author><text>Dang&amp;#x27;s response to a similar (but slightly more confrontational) comment from me:
&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=19459658&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=19459658&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;While I mostly agree with what he said, I think there are some things they could do to give users more control without &amp;quot;gutting&amp;quot; threads.&lt;p&gt;1. Allow accounts to be deleted, with all of all their comments and submissions reverting to a [deleted] author.&lt;p&gt;2. If conversations require author continuity, anonymize the author per-thread to something like the Google docs anonymous usernames&lt;p&gt;3. Include a deletion request with clear guidelines for reasons why something can be deleted.&lt;p&gt;Of course they won&amp;#x27;t do these things because 1) it&amp;#x27;s only two people and these features will require development and maintenance 2) an opaque and uncertain process ensures that they&amp;#x27;ll only receive requests in the most necessary cases 3) people might think more about what they write if they can&amp;#x27;t easily take it back&lt;p&gt;What they could really do is add a warning to the account creation, submission and comment forms telling users that their submissions are not retractable past the grace period.</text></comment>
<story><title>Just Delete Me – A directory of direct links to delete your account</title><url>https://backgroundchecks.org/justdeleteme/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>have_faith</author><text>&amp;gt; Hacker News&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Impossible&lt;p&gt;Not sure how I feel about this one. I think it&amp;#x27;s a nice gesture to respect someones wishes to delete their contributions regardless of the technical fact of external archives etc.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>abootstrapper</author><text>It’s especially annoying because the fact that you can’t delete an account is not disclosed up front.</text></comment>