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A friend of mine had his account marked dead for some reason. He had no idea and his comments and submissions were effectively blackholed for weeks. He eventual
by brandon 15y ago
A friend of mine had his account marked dead for some reason. He had no idea and his comments and submissions were effectively blackholed for weeks. He eventually stopped participating much in HN because of the lack of interaction.
Once I noticed, I emailed PG and he fixed it some hours later. Not a terribly scalable solution, but it got the job done.
- Forrest7778 15y agoI agree 100% that you should receive a notification that your account is blackholed. After reading this and still being new to HN I am a tad terrified now that I might one day be blackholed and not even realize it.
- dangrossman 15y agoThe whole point of a hellban is that the person receiving it doesn't know. Telling a troll they're banned just feeds into their behavior; they'll do whatever's necessary to circumvent the ban just to fight the site administrator and other users. A hellban subtly encourages the troll to leave voluntarily by ensuring they're ignored. http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2011/06/suspension-ban-or-hellban.html http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2011/06/suspension-ban-or-h...