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But you didn't reply to stale2002 or ZoeZoeBee did you?

Please delete my account?

It's physically impossible for us to reply to every comment that breaks the rules. Users who notice egregious cases that haven't been chided by mods are invited to alert us at hn@ycombinator.com. Obviously, though, the bad behavior of others does not excuse one's own (cf. "two wrongs don't make a right" upthread). And if you mean to infer political bias from the choice of comments I've publicly chided, you'll find that the data (https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=dang) sooner support the opposite bias than that one.

HN doesn't delete entire account histories. That would gut the threads that the account participated in, and the threads belong to the community. We do often delete specific comments that people have a reason to be worried about.

But you do often ban accounts, move threads, and delete threads.

Please delete my account? Are you refusing to delete my personal information? I've repeatedly asked, and you've ignored me.

Please delete my account, and all information related to it. I have that right.

Far from ignoring you, I answered that question in the comment you're replying to.

Yes, we ban accounts—usually publicly, except in case of spammers. And we do move threads, adding a comment explaining what we moved and where. We do not delete threads.

Please delete my account and all personal information?

You've repeatedly ignored my requests to delete my account and personal information.

Individual comments are deleted all the time. Please delete all my comments?

I have a right to be forgotten which is enforceable by law. Since the HN servers uses European servers I have a pretty good chance of this at least on those if you don't do the right thing. This has also been enforced on a number of US companies already.

Further more, you are infringing my copyright on these comments.

The hate speech you are publishing(and have direct knowledge that it is false) is not only a criminal matter, but also a safety matter.

My next step will be to send my request for removal again once by postal letter. This is my last comment on HN, and I will not read any more replies here.

I hope you do the right thing.

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