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I thought you'd end up "dead" (hellbanned) if you get consistently voted down to negative scores. I don't know a lot about actual mechanisms of how karma and vo
by jff 10y ago
I thought you'd end up "dead" (hellbanned) if you get consistently voted down to negative scores. I don't know a lot about actual mechanisms of how karma and voting work on this site, though, so if I'm wrong about that I apologize and retract the "hellbanned" part of my earlier comment.
- tptacek 10y agoNo, that's not at all how it works. "Hellbanning" is a form of banning where the site takes steps to avoid tipping you off that you've been banned. It's ostensibly a defense against spammers and trolls, who will create new accounts after being banned. For the past couple years, bans on HN are announced publicly. They're not automatic; the moderators do it directly. It's not based on your karma.
- dang 10y ago> bans on HN are announced publicly For the most part. We don't do so for spammers or (sometimes) serial trolls.
- vox_mollis 10y agoHellbanning exists in a subtler form, though. For instance, my account. Top-level comments that are literally seconds old are typically posted about 2/3 down the page. None of my votes appear to actually count. It's been this way for several months. I'm used to it, but it's still very annoying and I wish HN would actually acknowledge they do this.