I don’t have a good answer for the question of hellbanning Terry. Spamming every HN thread with irrelevant nonsense and long stretches of randomly generated tex

I don’t have a good answer for the question of hellbanning Terry. Spamming every HN thread with irrelevant nonsense and long stretches of randomly generated text is naturally going to get anyone hellbanned. Would it have been merciful to try and make an exception for Terry personally? I don’t know. The thing is, it never stopped him from posting, nor did it stop those of us with “showdead” enabled from seeing his comments. For me at least, Terry was a fixture of the old HN. Every story on the front page would have that one dead, greyed out comment at the bottom that didn’t make very much sense to anyone but him. I miss seeing those comments.