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I missed out on the whole story, what happened?
by didip 14y ago
I missed out on the whole story, what happened?
- chc 14y agoHe called Sebastian Marshall "a prolix douchebag" in a comment, got hellbanned for it and promptly left when he realized it. That's pretty much the story. Evidently the hellban was lifted a little later (albeit not the ban on voting?), but he'd already gone by that point.
- hexagonal 14y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=idlewords https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=idlewords https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2984932 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2984932 Basically, he was too mean in a comment thread. The submissions on HN typically run media hot (X is doomed, Y is for idiots, Z is braindead) while the comments run media cold. He got the two mixed up, and was banned.