I do not know HN's policy in particular, but some online community sites either prohibit this altogether, or do it only in select situations, as deleting and purging an account can render old archived conversations less useful.

You might try sending an email to: hn@ycombinator.com if you're wanting your account deleted.

Just stop coming here. Deleting your account doesn't stick it to "the man" anymore than not coming here.

"how did the downvote-jury chosen? why are they superior? what's the rule for them to downvote? for me I just feel they are a group of jerks lurking, if you call this democratic, fuck it."

I thought this was pretty well documented. You have to have a certain number of points to get the downvote functionality. This is to prevent the exact kind of shit that you're complaining about. The people that are here for 3 months and then angst for "the gold old days", then downvote everything. I've not even been around here for that long, but I've been a member of the internet for long enough to know that communities are fluid.

Send a polite message to the mods, with a good reason.

To just lock yourself out, set your password to a long random string.

It's better to use the feature request link at the bottom of the page to make feature requests.

Allowing deletion of comments (especially en masse) can completely ruin a thread by rendering it incomprehensible. The combined value everyone else gets from posts not being deleted is probably greater than the benefit you would get if it was allowed.

What would happen to your posts and threads? What if you are successful and I want to delete my account in 2 years. Will I be able to search and find out if its possible, or will I need to start a discussion like this one?