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Check out this user's threads page with showdead on: http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=wernerv0nbraun http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=wernerv0nbraun
by blasdel 18y ago
Check out this user's threads page with showdead on: http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=wernerv0nbraun http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=wernerv0nbraun -- all of their comments get deleted.
If the site has a honeypot system that shows the autodeleted comments only to the user that made them, that's clever, if a little much.
If it just instantly deletes them, that's lame, it'd be better just to ban him.
If this is being done by a moderator manually, that's fucking awful, and the moderator should be banned.
- unalone 18y agoNotice his comment 51 days ago that led to the autobanning. This wasn't just a random act of vitriol: there was something that led to the ban happening. PG said before that his solution with fighting trolls and spammers is to make it impossible for them to see that they're being killed. That way, unlike banning, they don't make new accounts.
- reveldave 18y agoThe site automatically autodeletes them, but the banned user can still see it. It's a little obvious once he's troll'ed you though. Instead of the banhammer, there's a programmatic 25sec delay to load any page on HN. Pretty sure it's done by the admin by hand, too. PH33R!!1