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Been there, done that. I have two other accounts that have been hellbanned for comments that moderators most likely disagreed with. I have learned to filter m
by davidhansen 15y ago
Been there, done that. I have two other accounts that have been hellbanned for comments that moderators most likely disagreed with. I have learned to filter my posts through a "would this opinion be unpopular?" filter. It's unfortunate, but self-censorship of even slightly controversial ideas is the only way to maintain a viable account on HN.
- achompas 15y agoComment content on HN is user-moderated. Your account won't get nuked by mods for anything but spam, but the community will vote you down for violating the rules: http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html People don't get "hellbanned" here, there are no dictatorial moderators. EDIT: the above is false--please see child comment.
- allenbrunson 15y agoThat is completely false. There have been hundreds of accounts hellbanned for bad behavior. Here's a random sampling: http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=gilesgoatboy http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=gilesgoatboy http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=sharkfish http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=sharkfish http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=losethos http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=losethos http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=Arrington http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=Arrington if you turn on showdead in your profile, you'll see that all of these people tried to comment past their bannings, but they were silenced.
- iptoc 15y agoHow do I find out why my other account was banned? I've hardly used it and never been rude to anyone with it. Or could it be that multiple accounts for the same user isn't allowed and that's why that one is banned?