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It said "about time."
by miltonsopus 6y ago
It said "about time."
- runawaybottle 6y agoAnd why did this warrant death? Just so everyone knows, few people even give a fuck about Svelte. Let’s not be babies.
- aidos 6y agoIn isolation, maybe it doesn’t, but reading through the comment history, the site will be better without these contributions.
- runawaybottle 6y agoThat’s up to us to decide. I have said some pretty insane things, and I often don’t get downvotes. If we reach scale, HN is doomed in general. Until then, we should pick the organic route. Most people are lurkers, so if they even had something to say, it would be one liners.
- dang 6y agoModeration is part of HN. That's one reason why being "doomed in general" hasn't yet destroyed the site after 10+ years of "reaching scale" (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&sort=byDate&type=comment&query=stave%20by:dang https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...). Part of what moderators do is ban accounts that break the site guidelines repeatedly, especially when they are respawns of previous accounts that broke the site guidelines repeatedly.
- Xevi 6y agoI think the point was that the user's comments didn't add much value to the site. If you don't have anything of value to say, then don't say it. Reddit is probably a better platform if you just want to say "nice", or something.
- paco3346 6y agoHave any data to back that up?
- wirahx 6y agoThe banned user is a person who intentionally trolls comment sections, chats, and other forms of feedback. It's genuinely their goal to get banned.
- dang 6y agoNote the phrase "a huge number" in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26558343 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26558343.