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That would be HN's version of hellbanning. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2619641 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2619641 (and http://news.ycombinator
by socillion 15y ago
That would be HN's version of hellbanning.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2619641 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2619641 (and http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2620156 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2620156 particularly) discusses it.
well phrased description from that article:
"A hellbanned user is invisible to all other users, but crucially, not himself. From their perspective, they are participating normally in the community but nobody ever responds to them. They can no longer disrupt the community because they are effectively a ghost. It's a clever way of enforcing the "don't feed the troll" rule in the community. When nothing they post ever gets a response, a hellbanned user is likely to get bored or frustrated and leave."
If you visit this user's page at http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=Humourisok http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=Humourisok you can see that their first 3 comments had negative karma, after which the hellban was applied.
I think it is automatically triggered if you reach a certain negative cumulative karma.
- mitko 15y agoI wonder why the pnathan was able to see the post then?
- econgeeker 15y agoI was hellbanned in the past and i was not trolling. I had over 1,000 karma earned in 6 months. My average karma per post was well over 6. I was not trolling. My posts were not getting voted down, despite often taking unpopular positions. I was, however, taking a position that one of the moderators of this site disagreed with, and (without realizing it) wrote a response making an argument in response to a post from one of the Y combinator people. I was hellbanned for disagreeing with the politburo. It was pure censorship because pg, et. al, cannot tolerate people who disagree with them on a political topic. Ironically, I was taking the pro-startup, pro-capitalist position. Since people are aware of hellbanning, they should be aware that it is used to silence people for disagreement, not just against trolls.
- socillion 15y agoCould you share your prior username? I'm hesitant to believe you because every [dead] comment I've seen so far has been by a user with a net negative karma.
- econgeeker 15y agoI mis-spoke. My average karma per post was well over 4, not 6. (memory fail.) http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=nika http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=nika OF course, I know that by doing this, I'm likely to get hellbanned again...