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Comment by headShrinker | Hacker News Reader

Dang, I’m not here to pile-on. The mod team here is spectacular. Over the years you and team have done a wonderful job. I do love HN. I just want to digitally die. I think we all get that. Keep doing what you do. To the community, support dang! He’s good. Finally, HN should have have some option to wipe out the account, user name, comments, posts, something... It should be automated.

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Contrarian opinion that I'm not sure I hold: think carefully about what you say, and if it's controversial, be brave/make a throwaway.

It's very valuable that HN allows throwaway accounts for these circumstances (unlike some other platforms where they allow only one account per person). However this doesn't help if the significance of a comment only becomes clear after it has been posted.

Having a hard time thinking of such a case.

You cannot think of anything that was not controversial, say, 40 years ago that is highly controversial now?

That makes me wonder what HN's archive will look like in 30 years.

Pedantic, hahaha...also infomative.

Maybe people in the future will make fun of anything besides that Dropbox comment.

Not that I would say, no.

Disagree.

There is a lot of -- I mean a a lot of -- propaganda on reddit and HN. There are a lot of bad faith posters using throwaway accounts to skew dialog. I call em out when I see em, but it's pretty clear what's going on. 10 day old accounts posting in nothing but pro-China threads, or 1 day old accounts talking about how terrible Intel/AMD/ARM/etc. is.

I don't see what this has to do with the parent, unless you're trying to say throwaways shouldn't be allowed.

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