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comrh on Sept 23, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Chris Poole

> This is important because with a history, you open yourself up to attacks.

Which is why I set up a script a few months ago to delete my account history every month. The amount of doxing I saw on reddit made me nervous.

flashman on Sept 23, 2015 | [–]

This has limited utility since people are archiving comments in real time and uploading them to Big Query https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9869871

Here's the realtime comments feed - add .xml, .json or .rss to change the format: https://www.reddit.com/comments

letstryagain on Sept 24, 2015 | [–]

I change my username every few months

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