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HN uses silent banning. Basically, when you get banned everything looks normal on your side, but none of your posts or up votes visible to anyone else (unless t
by jessepollak 14y ago
HN uses silent banning. Basically, when you get banned everything looks normal on your side, but none of your posts or up votes visible to anyone else (unless they have the show dead option turned on in settings).
If you want to, you can see banned accounts by going to your settings and enabling show dead.
- max_hacker 14y agoAh, that makes sense. Any idea on what causes it? I did try submitting a few times and received the message "You're submitting too fast" (even though it had been days since my last submission). PS- I came across one of your posts yesterday and today as well. I like reading your stuff man-- keep it up!