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Odd. It was indicated in that thread that "We've banned this serial troll, of course, but the immune response from the community was particularly healthy here.
by Twirrim 10y ago
Odd. It was indicated in that thread that "We've banned this serial troll, of course, but the immune response from the community was particularly healthy here." I guess they got un-banned?
- steveklabnik 10y agoOkay, breaking my rule here: yes, I am wondering that as well. Here's my assumption: the mods straight-up banned this individual's previous accounts, but shadowbanned this one instead. But shadowbanning just kills your comments automatically; in recentish times, HN has added a "vouch" feature that lets you vouch for a comment and get it un-killed. So I imagine that's what happend, which seems like a weakness in the shadowbanning feature, though maybe it's good as well, I don't know. The right way to know is to email the HN mods via the "contact" link at the bottom.
- dang 10y agoThat would definitely be the usual explanation but I'm happy to report that in this case there were no vouches. I suppose I should be glad that nobody here leaps to 'programmer error' as an explanation for anything.
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- dang 10y agoThey certainly didn't get unbanned! And btw I vaguely recall other accounts being silly around a similar derangement-point, so perhaps this is a serial troll, which is one of the few cases where we just ban accounts immediately. The comment might have gotten unkilled because of a bug that I might have introduced yesterday. Looking into it now. Edit: yep, it turns out I introduced a bug, with the dismaying but hilarious property that flagging a dead comment would revive it. We'll revert the change and try again later.
- steveklabnik 10y agoThanks dang! I do believe that this is a serial troll, but discussing that is very much offtopic for here, you have my email if you want to talk about it. I know we sometimes have differences, but I do want to reiterate that I think on the whole, you've made this site better, and am glad that HN is taking moderation seriously.
- lobster_johnson 10y agoHe's still posting, so not banned? Or that because of the bug you're referring to? https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=cyphreak https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=cyphreak
- dang 10y agoPretty sure that was the bug, but if anyone sees weird behavior around dead comments and banned accounts, please let us know.
- cyphreak 10y agoLol Ive been in hn-guts for years. You fucking retards can't ban me