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Well someone has to break it to you, I figure I will do the dirty work. "Don't sweat it, not gonna stop". This "hell-banning" as it is dubbed by HN users, has

by rick_2047 16y ago

Well someone has to break it to you, I figure I will do the dirty work. "Don't sweat it, not gonna stop". This "hell-banning" as it is dubbed by HN users, has been going on for as long as anyone can remember. And despite repeated posts like this, there seems to be not a single indication it is ever going to stop. (They have even put it on the guidelines Please do not submit posts complaining about posts were killed or comments that were downmodded.) Well if you look at the flip side of wrong, we do have a right here. This helps keep the community sane, in a harsh and cruel way of course.

awareness 16y ago
What kind of fucked-up forum community accepts that accounts will routinely be trashed without explanation? Frankly, I find such behavior extremely insulting.
- rick_2047 16y ago
  With all due respect sir, try to keep it civil no need to call the community "fucked-up" there are some very intelligent people around. Also the hell banning comes as a trade off. You want a great community with people talking about cool things then you will have to cope up with this. I have stated my protests earlier to this "our way,or the high way" attitude but there are somethings you just can't fight which includes what a community, of which you want to be a part of, has jointly selected. And now I am really interested to know what was your account name before you got banned
  - awareness 16y ago
    pw0ncakes. Hell-banning spammers or trolls makes sense. Banning people with 200+ karma without explanation, without warning, when they are not making personal attacks or spamming is inexcusable. I was once banned (over a year ago) for saying I liked Clojure better than Arc. Generally, I think the HN community is great, and I bet 90% of the posters here don't know about the forum's management problems, because of the way they're swept under the rug.
    - starkfist 16y ago
      You didn't get banned about Clojure vs. ARc. You got banned because when you started talking about "casual sex" the editors knew you were the same guy who got his last four accounts banned for talking about the same thing (and harassing other users about it).

awareness 16y ago

What kind of fucked-up forum community accepts that accounts will routinely be trashed without explanation? Frankly, I find such behavior extremely insulting.

rick_2047 16y ago
With all due respect sir, try to keep it civil no need to call the community "fucked-up" there are some very intelligent people around. Also the hell banning comes as a trade off. You want a great community with people talking about cool things then you will have to cope up with this. I have stated my protests earlier to this "our way,or the high way" attitude but there are somethings you just can't fight which includes what a community, of which you want to be a part of, has jointly selected. And now I am really interested to know what was your account name before you got banned
- awareness 16y ago
  pw0ncakes. Hell-banning spammers or trolls makes sense. Banning people with 200+ karma without explanation, without warning, when they are not making personal attacks or spamming is inexcusable. I was once banned (over a year ago) for saying I liked Clojure better than Arc. Generally, I think the HN community is great, and I bet 90% of the posters here don't know about the forum's management problems, because of the way they're swept under the rug.
  - starkfist 16y ago
    You didn't get banned about Clojure vs. ARc. You got banned because when you started talking about "casual sex" the editors knew you were the same guy who got his last four accounts banned for talking about the same thing (and harassing other users about it).