Nah. Had the same thing happen to me. I once asked dang to delete my account, and he stated much the same to me. In his defence, he was polite, and offered to rename my account to a random name, dissociating me from it. He also

On the other hand, I agree with GP. It's surprising that you cannot delete an account. That HN stay "readable" without the [deleted] is clearly secondary to the possibility of having an account be deleteable. Imagine if I were part of an at-risk group.