I'm also a bit confused about the edit bringing disabled people into it. But FWIW I clicked the "vouch" button. I think that is what it's for (correct me if I'm

I'm also a bit confused about the edit bringing disabled people into it. But FWIW I clicked the "vouch" button. I think that is what it's for (correct me if I'm wrong), I don't like seeing perfectly reasonable and constructive comments marked [dead], because no one can reply and often it sticks around for a bit and I've seen people write super constructive comments for months, unaware they've been shadow/hell-banned because of one ill-thought comment they made a while back. Otherwise I think the mod-team is doing a GREAT job (seriously kudos). But this is one of those warts on HN that I think is just sad. People spending effort contributing to the site, for weeks, but almost nobody reading it (except those with showdead enabled, what's the percentage on that btw?). If they're dicks that deserve to be banned, at least let them know. The occasions when its better to not let them know (aka hellbanning) are so extremely rare, only for extremely persistent trolls re-registering on new IPs, it should be done and decided manually by more than one person on the mod-team. Definitely not automatic thing after getting too many downvotes, that should just trigger a manual review.