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People should post some contact information in their HN bio. I agree, this is the ugliest part of HN, and it's sometimes nice to be able to give someone a heads

People should post some contact information in their HN bio. I agree, this is the ugliest part of HN, and it's sometimes nice to be able to give someone a heads up as to what's happened so they don't go on wasting their time posting comments that most people won't see. Granted, there are other cases like losethos (or whatever his screenname is) that are repeat offenders and deserve to be hellbanned. (Yeah, I know his case is due to mental illness.)

beedogunami 13y ago
My email address is in my HN bio. Never received a thing.
- kintamanimatt 13y ago
  If that's the case it seems your profile got blanked when you got shadowbanned. Here's a screenshot I took of it: http://i.imgur.com/KbS3heF.png http://i.imgur.com/KbS3heF.png --- It's just occurred to me that you're probably referring to the email field, not the about field. Anything in the email field isn't public, and I'm under the impression you don't get notified when you're hellbanned, which is pretty much how it gets its name! If, on the other hand you put your email address or other contact details in the about field, and they're no longer there, then that's a different matter. For example, my email address is in the email field of my profile but it's not public. The only public information that's there right now is my Twitter name.
  - PavlovsCat 13y ago
    Wow. I'm trying to think of something more to justify this comment, but "wow" is all I can come up with. There's moderating, and there' being kinda inhumane :(
  - beedogunami 13y ago
    You're right - I meant the email field. Sorry about that; I didn't know it wasn't publicly viewable until I checked.
phpnode 13y ago
call them out in the thread, at least it highlights the issue to other people, even if the person in question doesn't see your post.
- kintamanimatt 13y ago
  That's what I did this time. I tried to Google some contact details for the guy (Twitter account, etc), but who knew there were bee costumes for dogs? His profile was blank too.
RexRollman 13y ago
There are other options. For example, if someone's status = hellbanned, them change the header bar to reflect it. It's simple and doesn't require anything to be sent out.
- phpnode 13y ago
  that would just be a ban - the hell in hellban refers to the fact that you don't even know that you're a victim.
  - kintamanimatt 13y ago
    Yeah, to add to this further, the reason is to slow down the user so it takes them a while (if ever) to figure out they're banned, otherwise they'd just create a new account which would be more work for the mods and would drag down the quality of comments and content submitted. (Of course, this assumes the person being banned is being banned for justifiable reasons.)
    - RexRollman 13y ago
      Interesing. Thank you for the info.

beedogunami 13y ago

My email address is in my HN bio. Never received a thing.

kintamanimatt 13y ago
If that's the case it seems your profile got blanked when you got shadowbanned. Here's a screenshot I took of it: http://i.imgur.com/KbS3heF.png http://i.imgur.com/KbS3heF.png --- It's just occurred to me that you're probably referring to the email field, not the about field. Anything in the email field isn't public, and I'm under the impression you don't get notified when you're hellbanned, which is pretty much how it gets its name! If, on the other hand you put your email address or other contact details in the about field, and they're no longer there, then that's a different matter. For example, my email address is in the email field of my profile but it's not public. The only public information that's there right now is my Twitter name.
- PavlovsCat 13y ago
  Wow. I'm trying to think of something more to justify this comment, but "wow" is all I can come up with. There's moderating, and there' being kinda inhumane :(
- beedogunami 13y ago
  You're right - I meant the email field. Sorry about that; I didn't know it wasn't publicly viewable until I checked.

phpnode 13y ago

call them out in the thread, at least it highlights the issue to other people, even if the person in question doesn't see your post.

kintamanimatt 13y ago
That's what I did this time. I tried to Google some contact details for the guy (Twitter account, etc), but who knew there were bee costumes for dogs? His profile was blank too.

RexRollman 13y ago

There are other options. For example, if someone's status = hellbanned, them change the header bar to reflect it. It's simple and doesn't require anything to be sent out.

phpnode 13y ago
that would just be a ban - the hell in hellban refers to the fact that you don't even know that you're a victim.
- kintamanimatt 13y ago
  Yeah, to add to this further, the reason is to slow down the user so it takes them a while (if ever) to figure out they're banned, otherwise they'd just create a new account which would be more work for the mods and would drag down the quality of comments and content submitted. (Of course, this assumes the person being banned is being banned for justifiable reasons.)
  - RexRollman 13y ago
    Interesing. Thank you for the info.