Ask HN: I am confused - follow up to "I Am Tired of this now, Can I be deleted?" Rubbish, I am confused, what on earth happened - follow up to "I Am Tired of this now, Can I be deleted?" |
Ask HN: I am confused - follow up to "I Am Tired of this now, Can I be deleted?" Rubbish, I am confused, what on earth happened - follow up to "I Am Tired of this now, Can I be deleted?" |
either way, I am pretty sure you cannot delete your account history, http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1628701 is why I think its a terrible idea.
If you want to not be on the site, change your password, delete you bookmark, just dont visit the url again.
However if the tables were turned, say Facebook and not HN, people would be outraged that they could not delete their account. It wouldn't/shouldn't be very hard to just replace his username with [deleted](ala Reddit).
I do agree that post/submissions should not be allowed to be removed, however, I am against not having an option to remove my user name... for some odd reason.
Might perhaps be that this is the very first time that someone publicly asks to get deleted and no one knows what to do about it, hence deleting the thread t is an easy option.
Perhaps I do not quite so much care about the actual content, but that the content is likely to be permanent does quite change my opinion of social media and their kins such as this website.
I simply would not want to comment on a site like this if indeed all that I have commented has no way of being eradicated. For me on a personal level I suppose that is fine since my Id is fairly anonymous, but others would simply treat such platforms as businesses and that is, well would be, a sorry state of affairs.
I can not believe however that the brightest minds can not deal with this, yet can deal with utterly complex mathematical formulae and even P does or does not equal NP!
You decide what you make public, once it's public you can't close Pandora's box again. That's just the way things are now.
No use in asking anyone else, since he's the only one that can do it.
So too I would perhaps also like this website to not contain my thoughts.If it takes a man to go through each of them, then fine. If it takes me going through each of them and deleting them then fine.
Not that I would, but it is in a way a matter of principle. I own all these comments. I should have the right to decide as to which site or which person can view them or otherwise. Not some complete stranger.
I would not for example see how my comment would be any different from any other article which you can not simply post in your blog as it is copyrightable. I do not either see for example how it would be different from say mentioning a great idea I told a friend I was going to implement yet goes on to implement it himself.
The boundaries are yet to be defined for certain, but I do not see how one can reason that others should be freely able to record my speech in a permanent form without making me know so.
If Hacker News in their terms and conditions stated that they owned all that I contributed and made this blatantly obvious, then fine, but otherwise, all that I have stated is mine, and within my authority alone.
Not that I care at all of any of it. I simply want my account to be deleted because I am tired of this place.
Equating a public comment on a public website to a copyrighted article by a professional writer is just naive. If you talked to a copyright lawyer in the USA I'm almost 100% sure that your comments would not clear the bar of what can be copyrighted. Even if it could there are many countries where it would not be protected by copyright and where anyone could reproduce your comments at will.