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I can show what it takes to be "hellbanned" so you can decide if you might miss out on good posts by turning off show dead. I created an account for work to po
by jrkelly 14y ago
I can show what it takes to be "hellbanned" so you can decide if you might miss out on good posts by turning off show dead.
I created an account for work to post open jobs on monthly "Who's Hiring" post. I literally made 2 comments that weren't job posts (I'm assuming job posts don't get you banned) - so those must be the ones that got me banned?
you can see them here, halfway down:
https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=ginkgoo https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=ginkgoo
I'm pretty sure there were 3 or 4 months of job postings that were hell banned before I figured it out. Moderating sites is hard (I've been there), but this is a bit extreme IMO.
- noarchy 14y agoHellbanning seems to be very passive-aggressive, for better or worse. The person being banned not only doesn't know they are banned, but they won't necessarily know why they were banned to begin with. To be frank, I'm not even sure what gets you banned around here (as in, what are the standards, or is it arbitrary?).
- allenbrunson 14y agoI'd say it is a lot more likely that your account got "banned" because you posted the exact same thing several times. HN has a dupe checker. If you post the exact same message twice, it assumes you screwed up, and kills the second one. This is something that really bugs me about these meta threads. People attribute really heinous motives to the maintainers around here without knowing all the facts.