HACKER Q&A
📣 mikewhy

Any way to deactivate your Hacker News account?


The recent threads regarding KF have made me realize this site is not one I'd like to associate with.


  👤 texaslonghorn5 Accepted Answer ✓
Honestly this post is probably going to be counterproductive to your goal.

Better strategy is probably to email the admin team hn@ycombinator.com


👤 cratermoon
We try not to delete entire account histories because that would gut the threads the account had participated in. However, we care about protecting individual users and take care of privacy requests every day, so if we can help, please email hn@ycombinator.com. We don't want anyone to get in trouble from anything they posted to HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html


👤 bawolff
I have never understood why people always want to delete accounts instead of just stopping visiting sites they dont like anymore and moving on with life.

👤 joshxyz
No, you're forever stuck in here with us in dang's 7th circle of hell

Edit: just making yall laugh folks, i dont know about that kf yet


👤 feet
OP, I understand your sentiment and am inclined to agree. Support of such a site is appalling.

But I would also urge you to consider that people who feel like us leaving may make the HN community worse, as the percentage of people who support things like KF will be in greater percentage.

Perhaps using pseudo anonymous accounts and naming may help, that's what I do as I try to keep my online and real life partitioned


👤 onphonenow
What does KF have to do with HN?

👤 srvmshr
Could HN admins help unvote stray likes (which happened accidentally) to stories and comments.

👤 throw03172019
What is KF?

👤 bobsmooth
Why?