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Why do you ban sex positive usernames? HN has posts on drugs all the time. Is sex worse than doing drugs?
by sexiscool 7y ago
Why do you ban sex positive usernames? HN has posts on drugs all the time. Is sex worse than doing drugs?
- dang 7y agoI wouldn't say it is. I'd have to see the specific case. It's true that we sometimes ban accounts for having distracting usernames, because they end up mildly (or not so mildly) trolling every thread they post to. But usually we'll post an explanation and invite the user to email us with a username they'd like to switch to. If you didn't see a comment like that, we likely banned the account for some other reason. For example, if a brand new account shows up and immediately break the site guidelines, we often just shadowban it, especially if there's reason to believe the account owner has done so many times before. That's part of the cat and mouse game between trolls, the software, and the mods. We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19924160 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19924160 and marked it off-topic.
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