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Man it's times like this that I wish the mods didn't turn my votes into shadow-votes (a la shadow-ban) and that my votes actually worked.

q3k 10y ago
Indeed, 5 out of 6 top-level comments currently being attempts at cracking jokes. What a graveyard of a comment section.
- sdegutis 10y ago
  It's not just joke. It's the fact that it way too closely resembled the writing style of big-city newspaper articles, trying to "subtly" play on double-meaning words. It's just so awful.
biafra 10y ago
How do you know?
- sdegutis 10y ago
  They never ever adjust the position or color of any comment. They used to, until the day the mods labeled my account a "troll" account a few years ago. Now my posting is rate-limited, and my votes do nothing. Even after changing my behavior on HN, they refused to reverse their decision. Let that be a warning to everyone here, never to post comments or links the HN mods do not approve of. Their vengeance is moderate and permanent.
  - brudgers 10y ago
    Stating your case using the contact link is always an option.
    - sdegutis 10y ago
      Yep done that. That's when they basically said nope too bad so sad.
      - Arizhel 10y ago
        Time to create a new account.
        sdegutis 10y ago
        Meh. I'd rather just continue scaling back my time spent here. It's becoming a more and more worthless site every day.
  - zeveb 10y ago
    I worry that this will happen (or has happened) to me: I regularly use vouch to vouch for comments which I believe are unfairly flagged. Does that offend the moderators? I have no idea.
    - jhlgkhkhil 10y ago
      Yes is does. If you vouch for comments that get flagkilled your flagging/vouching rights get automatically removed quite quickly.
  - jhlgkhkhil 10y ago
    Same happened to me on another account. Long standing account with karma over 1000. One little spat and the account got rate limited and its votes did nothing - its flagging rights remained though for some weird reason... Since then I've been on throwaways.

q3k 10y ago

Indeed, 5 out of 6 top-level comments currently being attempts at cracking jokes. What a graveyard of a comment section.

sdegutis 10y ago
It's not just joke. It's the fact that it way too closely resembled the writing style of big-city newspaper articles, trying to "subtly" play on double-meaning words. It's just so awful.

biafra 10y ago

How do you know?

sdegutis 10y ago
They never ever adjust the position or color of any comment. They used to, until the day the mods labeled my account a "troll" account a few years ago. Now my posting is rate-limited, and my votes do nothing. Even after changing my behavior on HN, they refused to reverse their decision. Let that be a warning to everyone here, never to post comments or links the HN mods do not approve of. Their vengeance is moderate and permanent.
- brudgers 10y ago
  Stating your case using the contact link is always an option.
  - sdegutis 10y ago
    Yep done that. That's when they basically said nope too bad so sad.
    - Arizhel 10y ago
      Time to create a new account.
      - sdegutis 10y ago
        Meh. I'd rather just continue scaling back my time spent here. It's becoming a more and more worthless site every day.
- zeveb 10y ago
  I worry that this will happen (or has happened) to me: I regularly use vouch to vouch for comments which I believe are unfairly flagged. Does that offend the moderators? I have no idea.
  - jhlgkhkhil 10y ago
    Yes is does. If you vouch for comments that get flagkilled your flagging/vouching rights get automatically removed quite quickly.
- jhlgkhkhil 10y ago
  Same happened to me on another account. Long standing account with karma over 1000. One little spat and the account got rate limited and its votes did nothing - its flagging rights remained though for some weird reason... Since then I've been on throwaways.