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Yeah, I had an account hellbanned here for over a year before someone finally told me. There's no way to find if someone replies to you on this forum so I rarel
by consz 14y ago
Yeah, I had an account hellbanned here for over a year before someone finally told me. There's no way to find if someone replies to you on this forum so I rarely went back and checked if anyone replied to me, but it still bothered me that the admins would find it acceptable to let someone waste their time over an entire year without telling them their account is useless. Not to mention the additional 10-15 seconds of latency opening every page on the forum.
- GhotiFish 14y agoHN uses hellbanning? Neat.
- 542458 14y agoYou can actually toggle the visibility of posts from hellbanned users. Under your account settings, turn on 'showdead'. I leave it turned on, because while hellbanned users don't often contribute a lot, many of their posts are still interesting. For example, take losethos, who is afflicted with schizophrenia and writes his own operating systems so he can make music with God. (You'll have to turn on showdead to see his comments): http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=losethos http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=losethos
- duskwuff 14y agoHe changed nicks, still hellbanned: http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=SparrowOS http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=SparrowOS
- nitrogen 14y agoFor what it's worth, I believe losethos is now posting as SparrowOS, and that account is also dead. It's a tragic case, really, because LoseThos/SparrowOS is a fascinating piece of software, but its author is definitely on the fringes on non-software matters. https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=SparrowOS https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=SparrowOS
- thoughtcriminal 14y agoI hope you don't find someone who has schizophrenia and hellbanned funny. Because that would be pathetic, and you would be heartless. I no doubt misinterpreted your comment.
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- 542458 14y agoNot at all - I'm very sorry I gave that impression! Rather, I find it to be a interesting window into the mind of a highly intelligent programmer afflicted with a tragic mental disorder. I enjoy reading his comments because I feel it allows me to understand, if only in a tiny way, what he's going through (although maybe this is simply hubris on my part).
- ninetax 14y agoI use http://hnnotify.com/ http://hnnotify.com/ to get the replies to my comments. It's pretty useful.
- justincormack 14y agoFind out if people replied to you at https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=consz https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=consz
- johnreese 14y agoHN randomly takes about 10 seconds to load for me though I've never made an account here. In case my IP was slowbanned, can someone reply to this comment?
- egypturnash 14y agoYou're perfectly visible.
- nitrogen 14y agoSometimes HN is just slow. Last I heard, it's running in a custom server in a custom Lisp language on a single core of one server.
- endgame 14y agoThat's roughly what my experience with reddit was like. All of my posts sat on 1 point, all of my threads would get downvoted to zero and disappear.