I would argue that renaming the whole account to another account is not, in fact, anonymising it.
If dang wants to keep the content but properly anonymise it, then every single post would have to be unlinked from a single account. Every post should be attached to an unrelated random account.
/. used to handle this by having “Anonymous Coward”. Reddit has this with <deleted>. Because this is not a concept on HN (or at least, not an oft used one) I feel the “random unique accounts that post a single comment” is better than marking your posts as coming from “AC” as that would still allow sift through the search results.
This being said… if people wanted to keep your comment history… wouldn’t they already have fetched it by now? Especially if you’re publicly indicating you’re trying to get your account deleted?
If dang wants to keep the content but properly anonymise it, then every single post would have to be unlinked from a single account. Every post should be attached to an unrelated random account.
/. used to handle this by having “Anonymous Coward”. Reddit has this with <deleted>. Because this is not a concept on HN (or at least, not an oft used one) I feel the “random unique accounts that post a single comment” is better than marking your posts as coming from “AC” as that would still allow sift through the search results.
This being said… if people wanted to keep your comment history… wouldn’t they already have fetched it by now? Especially if you’re publicly indicating you’re trying to get your account deleted?