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> Are there any actual hellbanning tragedies on HN? Yes, https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=there https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=there Story: https://
by brymaster 13y ago
> Are there any actual hellbanning tragedies on HN?
Yes, https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=there https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=there
Story: https://jcs.org/notaweblog/2012/06/13/hellbanned_from_hacker_news/ https://jcs.org/notaweblog/2012/06/13/hellbanned_from_hacker...
And there are plenty more incidents like this.
- chalst 13y agoStory: "Very well-established user complains - because the mods thought the complaint was made in an improper, rule-infringing manner, the user was slowbanned, without dialog" - yes, that does sound like a tragedy. Has this tragedy been told from another viewpoint? Joshua's telling characterises pg/ the modocracy as being almost implausibly high-handed.
- chalst 13y agoThe HN link to jcs's story: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4108008 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4108008 tptacek's comment also mentions another hellban tragedy: 'Paul Graham personally hellbanned Maciej Ceglowski for calling Sebastian Marshall a "prolix douchebag". Maciej's comment was not a high point of Hacker News decorum and in that instance probably degraded the site slightly, but no reasonable person could have looked at 'idlewords comment record and not come to the conclusion that Maciej is someone we want on the site.'