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0 pointsbrink3y ago0 comments

They have to pay for servers somehow. Selling long dead channel handles is better than privacy invasion.

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It's not better when it comes at the cost of taking some of those handles away from people that were using them.

But they weren't using them. That's the whole point.

There are a number of situations I'm personally aware of where users had usernames revoked for channels they were actively using.

One common case where this occurred is when users used a channel as a "bio" or "blog", and posted to the channel infrequently to update it.

ls153y ago

@pg hasn't posted on HN for two years. Can I have his username?

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It's not better when it comes at the cost of taking some of those handles away from people that were using them.

But they weren't using them. That's the whole point.

There are a number of situations I'm personally aware of where users had usernames revoked for channels they were actively using.

One common case where this occurred is when users used a channel as a "bio" or "blog", and posted to the channel infrequently to update it.

ls153y ago

@pg hasn't posted on HN for two years. Can I have his username?

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