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that you would threaten to ban for something that got two downvotes is surprising to me
by make3 7y ago
that you would threaten to ban for something that got two downvotes is surprising to me
- dang 7y agoAh, I see. Well, moderation is orthogonal to comment voting. If a user is breaking the guidelines, it doesn't matter how many points the comment has. It's a bit like a constitutional democracy: the constitution part trumps the voting part. When we post something like "if you keep doing it, we're going to have to ban you," that's because the account has a pattern of posting unsubstantive comments or otherwise breaking the site guidelines. It's technically a reply to one comment, because we have to hang it somewhere, but it's really a response to a pattern. That said, it's been a while since we had to warn you and your recent history looks ok other than https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20126286 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20126286, so I can see why my comment came as a surprise. But it would be good if you'd omit the really low-information comments and up the signal/noise ratio a bit.