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This site - hackernews - will not delete your account - full stop.

I sent in a request asking what steps were necessary to have one's account deleted. I was told this was not possible. This is unreasonable.

And yes, I created this account specifically to post this comment.

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Could GDPR change this?

For EU users yes, but for other people kind of, when using EU based services.

Does the GDPR actually express a right to account deletion? My understanding is that it expresses only a right to erasure in a limited set of circumstances. Given that comments are public, I think it may be possible to deny the right to erasure on the archival exception.

However, upvotes are currently private, and cannot be removed after some length of time. I wonder if this would mean they should be made removable (or at least the record of them in a user's account).

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