So, let me get this straight: someone who works for SIAI made a frankly awful post which demonstrates quite clearly that they are terrible at dealing with people (not that that’s necessarily a requirement of their job, whatever that is), gets a deservedly negative response, and then deletes their account? What’s that supposed to solve? It just removes the ability to either defend themselves or concede apologetically.
They didn’t delete their account, it’s just what happens when you hit “delete” on one of your posts—it’s removed from the recent posts list, and your user name is disassociated from it and replaced with [deleted].
So, let me get this straight: someone who works for SIAI made a frankly awful post which demonstrates quite clearly that they are terrible at dealing with people (not that that’s necessarily a requirement of their job, whatever that is), gets a deservedly negative response, and then deletes their account? What’s that supposed to solve? It just removes the ability to either defend themselves or concede apologetically.
They didn’t delete their account, it’s just what happens when you hit “delete” on one of your posts—it’s removed from the recent posts list, and your user name is disassociated from it and replaced with [deleted].
You’re looking for Michael Vassar. The account is not deleted, just the post.
Oh, ok. That makes much more sense.