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It also led to Paypal allowing Wikileaks to retrieve the money they already had before they suspended their account.

• phillijw 15y ago
  I was not aware of this. Can you cite a source?
• jules 15y ago
  Is phillijw another false positive of HN spam detectors?
  • sorbus 15y ago
    Maybe. Look back through his(?) comment history, and you'll see that the point where he was autokilled/hellbanned (around nine pages back) was, while a very downvoted (and nonsensical) comment, not actually malicious. Before that, he had a few comments which were downvoted maybe two or three times (you can tell by the color). It's probable that he was autokilled/hellbanned because those caused his average comment karma to drop too far, as well as making his karma negative, though I am not aware of the exact criteria. At this point, he seems like a false positive based on his recent comments. It's a pity that there's no real procedure for being unhellbanned, even if the user discovers that they are, other than starting a new account.
    • jules 15y ago
      Even starting a new account doesn't work (at least it didn't in a previous instance where I notified a false positive). You also need to use a proxy. So to phillijw, email PG or start a new account using a proxy :)