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We delete comments and rename accounts for people every day. We just don't offer it wholesale. No one asks for help with that gets turned away, nor, I believe, has anyone gone away unsatisfied. Maybe I'm forgetting one or two.

We care a lot about individuals' need for privacy. We just need to balance it with the community's need to preserve its archive, and the right of repliers not to have the context of their comments pulled out from under them. We bend over backwards to get that right. For example, I have written custom code to help individual users with complex requests on several occasions.

I should probably add this to the FAQ.



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