This problem was very easy to fix: move his account to another server. It took an amount of one blog post to trigger the solution. He got special attention.
Remember that facebook non-deleted picture discussed yesterday?
It's 404 now. I suspect (purely guessing) they specifically took that one picture down, but did not also "solve" the problem that left it there in the first place.
I quit a social network a few years ago, but they would not delete my account. So I logged in and changed my name to something like NameOfSocialNetworkRefusesToDeleteMyAccount. And vi-ola, the account disappeared in a day or so.
Remember that facebook non-deleted picture discussed yesterday?
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1400128
It's 404 now. I suspect (purely guessing) they specifically took that one picture down, but did not also "solve" the problem that left it there in the first place.
I quit a social network a few years ago, but they would not delete my account. So I logged in and changed my name to something like NameOfSocialNetworkRefusesToDeleteMyAccount. And vi-ola, the account disappeared in a day or so.
The embarrassing wheel gets the grease.