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nice site, i think very useful, but lacking in presentation (not usability) but design-finesse.
Really? Tiny Adsense ads in the "instructions" area to fool us??
agree. the site is just to fool us. how it made to the frontpage?
When you refresh, it moves to a different block. This is in violation of Google's AdSense guidelines. If you report the site, they'll get in trouble.
I would love to see a facebook account deletion phishing site where it lured users into entering their login credentials and clicking a few submits and deleting their account.
You can't delete your account on HN btw. You can get banned, but your posts and profile remain.
I believe pg sometimes deletes accounts if you email him.
It's not clear that you should have the ability to delete your old posts. They have often become part of a conversation that is no longer yours alone.
In a lot of cases apps don't delete your account, they just mark you deleted.
In some cases it's a performance thing. Instead of deleting the entire table with user X's info, they just flip a value in the deleted/disabled table column. If they really want to delete it they can run a batch job later.

Then again, it might have as much to do with reactivating accounts as it does with server performance.

I've got a landing page in "spanish".

The translation is so bad that I would never ever use their service. Hint: you should never use google translate to provide localizaed versions of your website.

For those who did not get it: your dog speaks insert language here better than google translate does. Seriously.