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Presumably those accounts are dead because of repeated rule breaking, not because their specific post in this thread broke the rules. And there might be more de

Presumably those accounts are dead because of repeated rule breaking, not because their specific post in this thread broke the rules. And there might be more dead comments here on average because politics+tech draws a lot of a certain type of commenter(the type of commenter that might get banned)

AlbertCory 2y ago
"Presumably" ?? which ones? How do you know?
- shitpostbot 2y ago
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- generalizations 2y ago
  It's a fairly safe prior - Dang does a pretty great job moderating here & I'm inclined to give him the benefit of the doubt.
- 13415 2y ago
  People generally know from participating in moderation because they flag comments and posts themselves.
- usefulcat 2y ago
  Some context on a user (bigbacaloa) who made one of the dead comments you've referred to elsewhere: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37421874 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37421874 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37381905 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37381905
- dredmorbius 2y ago
  It's possible to search for moderator replies (dang, earlier sctb and pg) to specific userIDs with the syntax: https://news.ycombinator.com/replies?id=<CommentUserID>&by=<ReplyUserID> E.g., dang's replies to bigbacaloa: <https://news.ycombinator.com/replies?id=bigbacaloa&by=dang https://news.ycombinator.com/replies?id=bigbacaloa&by=dang> That (presently) turns up two admonishments dating back 11 months and two years: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37423572 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37423572> and <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33132910 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33132910>. The first of those (11 months ago) is where the account was banned. If you have specific questions on accounts, users, sites, comments, posts, etc., which you feel are improperly flagged, killed, or banned, you can always email the mods at hn@ycombinator.com. I do this frequently, usually with suggestions (e.g., title or URL changes), sometimes with questions (earlier today a site which showed up dead, turns out it's a hard paywall, which I eventually tracked down dang's comment on, though not in an easily-searchable way).
canadianfella 2y ago
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AlbertCory 2y ago

"Presumably" ?? which ones? How do you know?

shitpostbot 2y ago
[dead]
generalizations 2y ago
It's a fairly safe prior - Dang does a pretty great job moderating here & I'm inclined to give him the benefit of the doubt.
13415 2y ago
People generally know from participating in moderation because they flag comments and posts themselves.
usefulcat 2y ago
Some context on a user (bigbacaloa) who made one of the dead comments you've referred to elsewhere: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37421874 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37421874 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37381905 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37381905
dredmorbius 2y ago
It's possible to search for moderator replies (dang, earlier sctb and pg) to specific userIDs with the syntax: https://news.ycombinator.com/replies?id=<CommentUserID>&by=<ReplyUserID> E.g., dang's replies to bigbacaloa: <https://news.ycombinator.com/replies?id=bigbacaloa&by=dang https://news.ycombinator.com/replies?id=bigbacaloa&by=dang> That (presently) turns up two admonishments dating back 11 months and two years: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37423572 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37423572> and <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33132910 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33132910>. The first of those (11 months ago) is where the account was banned. If you have specific questions on accounts, users, sites, comments, posts, etc., which you feel are improperly flagged, killed, or banned, you can always email the mods at hn@ycombinator.com. I do this frequently, usually with suggestions (e.g., title or URL changes), sometimes with questions (earlier today a site which showed up dead, turns out it's a hard paywall, which I eventually tracked down dang's comment on, though not in an easily-searchable way).

canadianfella 2y ago

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