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Why on earth was earl "hellbanned"? His post completely made sense and his account has 4334 karma. I'm emailing him now to tell him.

• heretohelp 14y ago
  It happens to a lot of people.
  • qq66 14y ago
    That's disturbing since a hellbanning is a much more vile punishment than a simple ban. Why is it doled out so casually?
    • Natsu 14y ago
      It's probably a case of an anti-spam algorithm gone wrong. At least, that's what I remember hearing about a previous incident.
      • heretohelp 14y ago
        No, it's almost always done directly by a human if your account itself is hellbanned.
        • Natsu 14y ago
          The only case I'm aware of where pg has commented indicated that a person posted a link that was being spammed on HN in one of their comments and got banned accidentally.