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> andreadallera 44 minutes ago | link [dead] > Sorry to threadjack but... how does it work? It seems that, for some reason, my account is blacklisted too. Who

by exit 15y ago

> andreadallera 44 minutes ago | link [dead] > Sorry to threadjack but... how does it work? It seems that, for some reason, my account is blacklisted too. Who decides that? On the basis of what? I'm honestly perplexed... one part of it is that no one can directly reply to your comments. looking at your submissions, i suspect you were banned for posting links to your own blog? there must be less obnoxious ways for moderators to discourage that.

ColinWright 15y ago
> looking at your submissions, i suspect you were > banned for posting links to your own blog? No, that won't be it. People regularly submit links to their own blogs, and if it's not excessive, on-topic, well-reasoned, and generally valuable or "of deep interest" then there's no problem at all. I suspect it's several of the comments made elsewhere that got down-voted into oblivion, and that triggered an automatic hellban. > there must be less obnoxious ways for moderators > to discourage that. The voting already tries to guide behavior, but when that doesn't work, something else has to be done. In the case of genuine trolls, banning them and telling them so simply makes them create a new account and carry on. Silently banning them is a significantly more effective method of dealing with genuine trolls. The problem is that occasionally there is some collateral damage, with non-trolls getting caught by the mechanism. Solve the problem of trolls, without getting any false positives, and you'll potentially have a market winner.
anthonyb 15y ago
People post links to their blogs all the time, so I doubt it's that. From looking at his history, it seems to be this post which caused the ban: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3555622 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3555622 No idea why - it's inflammatory, but hardly worth a ban. Possibly that, plus the previous comments you made here http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3467179 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3467179 pissed the mods off enough to ban you.

by exit 15y ago

ColinWright 15y ago

> looking at your submissions, i suspect you were > banned for posting links to your own blog? No, that won't be it. People regularly submit links to their own blogs, and if it's not excessive, on-topic, well-reasoned, and generally valuable or "of deep interest" then there's no problem at all. I suspect it's several of the comments made elsewhere that got down-voted into oblivion, and that triggered an automatic hellban. > there must be less obnoxious ways for moderators > to discourage that. The voting already tries to guide behavior, but when that doesn't work, something else has to be done. In the case of genuine trolls, banning them and telling them so simply makes them create a new account and carry on. Silently banning them is a significantly more effective method of dealing with genuine trolls. The problem is that occasionally there is some collateral damage, with non-trolls getting caught by the mechanism. Solve the problem of trolls, without getting any false positives, and you'll potentially have a market winner.

anthonyb 15y ago

People post links to their blogs all the time, so I doubt it's that. From looking at his history, it seems to be this post which caused the ban: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3555622 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3555622 No idea why - it's inflammatory, but hardly worth a ban. Possibly that, plus the previous comments you made here http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3467179 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3467179 pissed the mods off enough to ban you.