(I don’t understand this comment. It would be like 10 minutes of effort to figure this out, so maybe there is some misunderstanding about how one would go about this. Also in-general, if anyone wants any kind of information that can be figured out from public information like this, feel free to ping the admins and we will tell you)
I think people don’t usually even try to figure something like that out, or are even aware of the option. So if you publicly announce that a user has deactivated their account X times, then this is information that almost no one would otherwise ever receive.
I also have the sense that it’s better to not do that, even though I have a hard time explaining in words why that is.
Please just ask us if you want publicly available but annoying to get information about LW posts! (for example, if you want a past revision of a post that was public at some point)
I’ve answered requests like that many times over the years and will continue to do that (of course barring some exceptional circumstances like doxxing or people accidentally leaking actually sensitive private data)
(I don’t understand this comment. It would be like 10 minutes of effort to figure this out, so maybe there is some misunderstanding about how one would go about this. Also in-general, if anyone wants any kind of information that can be figured out from public information like this, feel free to ping the admins and we will tell you)
I think people don’t usually even try to figure something like that out, or are even aware of the option. So if you publicly announce that a user has deactivated their account X times, then this is information that almost no one would otherwise ever receive.
I also have the sense that it’s better to not do that, even though I have a hard time explaining in words why that is.
Please just ask us if you want publicly available but annoying to get information about LW posts! (for example, if you want a past revision of a post that was public at some point)
I’ve answered requests like that many times over the years and will continue to do that (of course barring some exceptional circumstances like doxxing or people accidentally leaking actually sensitive private data)