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Hi dang, I see you post this (it seems) every time you ban an account. What’s the purpose? I’ll admit, I’ve never been banned, so idk what it looks like when y
by colejohnson66 6y ago
Hi dang, I see you post this (it seems) every time you ban an account. What’s the purpose?
I’ll admit, I’ve never been banned, so idk what it looks like when you try to log in or do something.
- dang 6y agoDo you mean what's the purpose of banning, or the purpose of posting that we did it?
- colejohnson66 6y agoPurpose of posting that you did
- dang 6y agoIt's basically treating people the way we'd want to be treated ourselves. Also, it's good to convey to the community some of the things we ban people for and where the lines are. HN used to shadowban (i.e. ban people without telling them), but it led to a lot of resentment, not just from the banned users but from many community members who don't think that's fair. At the time, there wasn't much of an alternative because HN had one moderator (pg) and he was also working on YC and raising small children. It takes a ton of time and energy to write such comments and to engage with user responses about them. We still shadowban accounts when they're new and show signs of spamming or trolling: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=by%3Adang%20shadowban&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que.... p.s. Banning mostly just means that your posts are autokilled. They're still visible to anyone with 'showdead' set to 'yes' in their profile.