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I don't agree with the post you're replying to, but before you took over it was much more common to be shadow banned for a silly reason. For example my first a
by dec0dedab0de 6y ago
I don't agree with the post you're replying to, but before you took over it was much more common to be shadow banned for a silly reason.
For example my first account, which admittedly didn't have top quality content, hardly did anything worthy of a ban by today's standards.
https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=d3c0d3dab0d3 https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=d3c0d3dab0d3
- dang 6y agoFor sure, the site worked differently prior to 2014. I'm talking about how we've operated since then. 7 years is an internet eternity! Though I suppose I should be thankful that people are still talking about things that happened in 2013 because it means they still care. HN was moderated differently in the early years because pg was running it in whatever hours he could eke out between running YC and having small children. That was a totally different situation than now. It's a miracle the site stayed up at all. It's not clear why that account was banned, unless it was related to other accounts that did bad things? (You don't have to answer that.) In any case, I've unbanned it now and restored the affected posts, in case that's helpful.
- dec0dedab0de 6y agoI always assumed it was because the name looked like spam nonsense, which is why I put the explanation in this one. I got over it pretty quickly, but thank you for the gesture.
- dang 6y agoI don't think HN ever used to ban accounts for that reason. It must have been something else. We might be able to figure out what from the logs, but that's time-consuming and probably not worth it.