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My understanding is that comments and submissions can be flagged to death by users, but "hellbanning" -- that is, marking a user such that all of their future c
by duskwuff 4y ago
My understanding is that comments and submissions can be flagged to death by users, but "hellbanning" -- that is, marking a user such that all of their future comments and submissions are dead by default -- is a manual action by dang or other moderators.
- dredmorbius 4y agoAccounts can be auto-killed via sufficient flags, plus some computational scoring I suspect. I'll see and report spam accounts. The usual response is that those already were autokilled, or were killed shortly after I emailed (and prior to the moderators' response). You'll also see dang occasionally commenting on autoflagged "green" (new) accounts. E.g.: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23686501 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23686501> <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10638699 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10638699> <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22377470 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22377470> An overview of how/when accounts are killed and what notice is given is here: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21082164 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21082164>