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I 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.
by econgeeker 15y ago
I 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...