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I used to keep a spreadsheet of dead accounts I saw, but I haven't looked at it in over a year. I had a column for whether they deserved to be banned - I'd chec
by ehsanu1 13y ago
I used to keep a spreadsheet of dead accounts I saw, but I haven't looked at it in over a year. I had a column for whether they deserved to be banned - I'd check their history and try to figure out at which point they had been banned, attempting to discern the original reason. I was a bit disconcerted with how often it was a quite innocent comment, and how valuable many of contributions were in general.
I had intended to release this spreadsheet to the HN community, but it really was not at all comprehensive, and I forgot about it over time. Perhaps if members here would volunteer to maintain a list of such cases.. We don't need PG to implement anything then, every week he could just be sent a list of users that ought to be unbanned.
- alayne 13y agoI also have tried to figure out the original reason for hellbanning, and I think there are a lot of instances where you could chalk it all up to a temporary lapse of judgement. Sure there are extreme cases where people are nuts, trolls, or both, but that is probably a fraction of cases.