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A small meta-comment: xdissent[1], the author of this package, is a HN user, but he has negative karma because his fourth comment was snarky and got heavily do
by pygy_ 15y ago
A small meta-comment:
xdissent[1], the author of this package, is a HN user, but he has negative karma because his fourth comment was snarky and got heavily downvoted. Even though he's aware of the ban he clings to this handle and continues to post messages seen by almost no one (he posted twice on this comment page [2,3]). The rest of the messages eversince the incident have been fine (enable "showdead" in the user control pannel if you want to read them).
Since he seems attached to the handle, it would be nice if he could be upvoted back to the positive side so that he can once again participate.
He's got three upvotable posts in history (before the ban). His karma is currently at -32. This means that he needs 11 brave souls to break even. You know what to do :).
1. http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=xdissent http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=xdissent, comments: http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=xdissent http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=xdissent
2. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2955430 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2955430
3. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2955411 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2955411
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Edit: 58 minutes later: -10. Thanks to the upvoters.
- xdissent 15y agopygy_ you are my hero. I'm speechless in a different sense than earlier today. Thank you and everyone who up voted me and thanks for reaffirming that karma works.
- pygy_ 15y agoxdissent: you appear to be still banned (at least, 4 hours after my post, you still were). Since you now have a positive karma, could you answer this post as a test?
- tripzilch 15y agoI don't seem to see his posts unless I enable "showdead". I didn't even know karma worked this way on HN. Quite ridiculous, IMHO, to completely hide someone if their karma runs too low. Especially if it can happen by unfortunate accident and ends up hiding a positive contributor completely from view--basically means the system is broken.
- pygy_ 15y agoThe dead-ban system makes the life of the moderators much easier by starving trolls who would otherwise create a new account as soon as they got banned. At HN's scale, it is necessary. This case is unfortunate, though, but I guess that's why the showdead option exists. I don't know if a negative karma turns on an irreversible ban flag, or if going back to positive will alleviate the ban. If not, I'll write a mail to pg.
- xdissent 15y agoTesting 1 2 3. This thing on?
- pygy_ 15y agoNow it is :-) You may want to repost your earlier answers in this thread. 2011/9/3 Paul Graham <pg@ycombinator.com> > > fixed > > 2011/9/3 Pierre-Yves Gérardy <pygy79@gmail.com>: > > Hello, > > would it be possible to unban xdissent? > > See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2955023 for the details. > > Kind regards, > > -- Pierre-Yves
- pygy_ 15y agoYou're still banned. Time to drop a line to pg.