Okay the whole "context" argument just does not hold water. There are plenty of twitter streams, facebook streams and STOCKTWITS conversations with missing comments from users who have since been removed (both voluntarily and involuntarily) yet those sites thrive and no one is complaing about missing context.
I get where you are are coming from with the legal situation regarding nefarious posters who may have (multiple)accounts used to manipulate or engage in other fradulent schemes, like paid promoters and coordinated pump and dumps, etc.... but we know they are more than likely wise enough to carry out said activites using a VPN which essentially negates their need to erase anything. Having said that I am sure plenty of fradulent activities occur on STOCKTWITS and Twitter and they still allow users to delete profiles. I believe ihub should as well, and my reasons are this- I have had my hotmail account hacked 10 years ago and was luckily able to get it back, I also had My Facebook hacked as well in 2011, the person even changed my password but had yet to change the email linked to the account so I was able to regain access and then use two step-verification, with a code sent to my phone before logged in so it would not happen again. I found out exactly how it happened - with my mobile phone staying logged in while I was traveleing to DC someone picked up my signal, via femtocell or stingray device and was right in without even trying. So any users here (and any other account/profile) who stay logged in via APP on their mobile device are at risk of a femtocell/stingray interception.
Your site is SEVERLY LACKING in the SECURITY department in several ways.
Password requirments are nil. Users should be required to have a number and a symbol and over 8 (or better yet 12) digits. You do not offer two-step verification and there is no account recovery options here aside from your single email connection (if someone gets in and changes that you are SOL). When logging in there is no CAPTCHA pop-up if you password attempt is wrong and as far as I know (have not tried incorrect password more than 5 times in a row) there is no time-out for multiple failed log-in attempts, meaning a hacker could run a brute-force algo on users here with nothing to stop them until they hit the password.
The increase in hacking and data breaches at some of our most guarded instutions in the past 5 years has prompted me (and millions of others) to reduce our digital footprint to the bare minimal that is possible. I have removed unneeded email acccounts, shut-down now unused online game acounts, Stocktwits, an ancient myspace and a host of other online profiles and accounts I do not care for and wanted gone out of precaution. Yet I have found this site is literally the ONLY one I have an account on that I can not delete and that is unnacceptable and irritating beyond words.
