Somebody pointed out that the person might be afraid they gave so much info that their post gets de-anonymized - but IMO people afraid of that shouldn't post on public forums to begin with.
I think a good solution would be to create a community specifically to connect people who don't want to share their posts and people willing to provide individual help. They could find each other and DM a conversation. Milking a public forum for advice and then vandalizing it by deleting the post is definitely NOT a good solution, and I do not share your sympathy for people who do that. It's like curtaining off a few back rows of a bus to use all day as an office - although that could have been funny in a Seinfeld episode.
As someone who's done only minimal hacking I found this fascinating and very readable. I could skim the parts I was only sort of familiarish with and still follow the overall plot, and I felt like with a little research I could actually do what he was describing. Probably the best-written piece about hardcore hackery I've ever read!
That kind of crap is one reason I became a contractor ages ago and didn't look back.