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If your main worry is that they will start trolling/flamming your community, you could try http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=hell%20ban http://www.

• MicahWedemeyer 17y ago
  I've thought about this, but it basically means I'm programming features for assholes. I don't want to get in a war like that, but I may have to, I guess.
  • jacquesm 17y ago
    HN is full of programming features for assholes, it seems to have served the community well, even if it isn't always 100% transparent and in the case of false positives it requires manual undoing.
    • Estragon 17y ago
      That sounds interesting. Are those features in the public source code?
      • jacquesm 17y ago
        No, PG keeps a lot of the secret sauce out of the public release in order to make it a bit harder for those that want to game the system.
• njl 17y ago
  At some point, they will realize that this is happening, and there will be outrage when they communicate about it to their friends via an outside channel. Be prepared for a lot of splashback.
  • DenisM 17y ago
    Make it a 85% hell ban - they will never figure out what happened, yet they will not be able to continue flaming.
• nfnaaron 17y ago
  Hmm. Has anyone tried a purgatory ban (I just made that up). Basically give individual users the ability to never see posts or messages from other individual users, but no indication to the ban-ee.
  • petervandijck 17y ago
    I've done that. They figured it out and twas no fun. Don't fight with pigs, you'll just et dirty and they like it (or how does that saying go?)
• cullenking 17y ago
  I love this concept; an alteration would be to instead change their background to care bears or barney, or something overly obnoxiously loving.