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jrcii was not downvoted. it is a banned account, and you are seeing it because you have "show dead" enabled.

grzm 10y ago
How did you determine jrcii is banned? Is it that their most recent comments are marked '[dead]' and not '[flagged][dead]'?
giardini 10y ago
Thank you. I looked at jrcii's account and see what you describe: jrcii was feeling his oats after the elections and took a Trumpic victory lap by posting a pretty snarky comment on YC. In that comment jrcii disses: climate warning, "Silicon Valley people, LA people, NYC people, city people, liv[ing] in a bubble formed by the urban politics around you and reinforced by liberal college professors, the liberal students they create, and the liberal mass media. This is simply not reality for vast swaths of the country." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12917083 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12917083 OK, so he does this once, just once. There's no pattern of misbehavior. He didn't threaten anyone (no "Second Amendment People" comin'!). For all we know he's the last conservative in SF and needs to blow off steam. YC is a great forum. I think it harsh for a techie to be banned for a single scattergun comment especially after a heated election. I would think a caution would be better at this juncture, or even some ribbing: "OK, we hear you celebrating! Your guy won this time. But soon we'll find out whether he can ride the horse!" or such.
- ahlatimer 10y ago
  At the risk of getting too far off topic, that isn't the comment that got jrcii banned; this is: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12698197 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12698197 As for several repeat violations mentioned in the thread, you can find several other comments in jrcii's history that have been marked as [flagged][dead].
  - giardini 10y ago
    Thank you, I was wrong. I see the problem.
- sctb 10y ago
  I'm not sure why you think that account was banned for a single comment. When we ban accounts we almost always do so after repeated warnings, and then we post about why we've done it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12703655 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12703655.
  - giardini 10y ago
    My bad and I apologize for the oversight. When I reviewed jrcii's comments I failed to notice the "More" link at bottom of the first page and there is indeed a bit "More" to read!8-O I appreciate your thoroughness. jrcii is indeed a bit sensitive. From the nature of his last post, I suspect he regrets being banned from YC, where he was active for almost two years. Too bad.
sctb 10y ago
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12938407 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12938407 and marked it off-topic.

grzm 10y ago

How did you determine jrcii is banned? Is it that their most recent comments are marked '[dead]' and not '[flagged][dead]'?

giardini 10y ago

Thank you. I looked at jrcii's account and see what you describe: jrcii was feeling his oats after the elections and took a Trumpic victory lap by posting a pretty snarky comment on YC. In that comment jrcii disses: climate warning, "Silicon Valley people, LA people, NYC people, city people, liv[ing] in a bubble formed by the urban politics around you and reinforced by liberal college professors, the liberal students they create, and the liberal mass media. This is simply not reality for vast swaths of the country." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12917083 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12917083 OK, so he does this once, just once. There's no pattern of misbehavior. He didn't threaten anyone (no "Second Amendment People" comin'!). For all we know he's the last conservative in SF and needs to blow off steam. YC is a great forum. I think it harsh for a techie to be banned for a single scattergun comment especially after a heated election. I would think a caution would be better at this juncture, or even some ribbing: "OK, we hear you celebrating! Your guy won this time. But soon we'll find out whether he can ride the horse!" or such.

ahlatimer 10y ago
At the risk of getting too far off topic, that isn't the comment that got jrcii banned; this is: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12698197 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12698197 As for several repeat violations mentioned in the thread, you can find several other comments in jrcii's history that have been marked as [flagged][dead].
- giardini 10y ago
  Thank you, I was wrong. I see the problem.
sctb 10y ago
I'm not sure why you think that account was banned for a single comment. When we ban accounts we almost always do so after repeated warnings, and then we post about why we've done it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12703655 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12703655.
- giardini 10y ago
  My bad and I apologize for the oversight. When I reviewed jrcii's comments I failed to notice the "More" link at bottom of the first page and there is indeed a bit "More" to read!8-O I appreciate your thoroughness. jrcii is indeed a bit sensitive. From the nature of his last post, I suspect he regrets being banned from YC, where he was active for almost two years. Too bad.

sctb 10y ago

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12938407 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12938407 and marked it off-topic.