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Comment by jabn76 | Hacker News Reader

People asking to exercise their rights on their own private information are not trolls.

In this case, you are making work for a person that doesn't monetize the platform you're using. It was service that was offered in good faith, and is now, because of this useless request, not going to be available.

Instead they are being forwarded to a service that does monetize their service.

>now, because of this useless request

No, it is because of an overreaction to a request. If they are acting in good faith then just reply

How many hours should this person put in to respond to the request?

And to all the others.

About 3 minutes.

"Here's the privacy policy. Here's the data export page."

Haha data export page, what even is that? Let me just go to my SQL DB, redis, glacier backups, and Kafka logs and just click the data export button. It will only take 3 minutes.

There's a button to download the user's data on their profile page. You can direct them to that. There's also a function to anonimise a user, which scrubs records of IP addresses and usernames.

Maybe the request is an overreaction?

Closing down a forum because of a single request is a ridiculous over reaction.

OP could have waited for the regulator's letter before doing anything.

When you receive a request that is titled the "Nightmare letter" [1] it is hard to assume otherwise.

1: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/nightmare-letter-subject-acce...

> exercise their rights

These aren't their natural right. Some laws are just bad independent of whether most people support or agreed to them. This is most obvious in dictatorships, but dysfunction strikes all systems.

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