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This, along with the equally draconian practice of shadowbanning, really ought to be ceased.
by beedogs 13y ago
This, along with the equally draconian practice of shadowbanning, really ought to be ceased.
- noarchy 13y agoPeople create threads to discuss hellbans (or shadowbans, or whatever others might prefer) from time to time, too. Hellbanning is a practice that I find almost embarrassing. Browse this site with "show dead" enabled, and you'll find perfectly good comments showing up as dead. You'll also see legit problem posters showing why they should simply be banned, rather than allowed to post dead comments all day.
- nekopa 13y agoIf the problem posters were banned, I think the technical nature of most members here would mean that they would quickly and easily set up a new account to troll from again, leading to playing whack-a-mole with the banhammer. That was, IIRC, one of the reasons for shadow ban creation.
- Helianthus 13y ago>I think the technical nature of most members here would mean that they would quickly and easily set up a new account to troll from again, Shadow bans are so much different! Source: I have a shadowbanned account.
- DanBC 13y agoI like hellbanning. A few people are unfairly caught out by it, but they are usually told about it. And the fact you see problem posters continuing to post on their banned accounts shows it works well enough to prevent those people just changing IP and creating new accounts.
- noarchy 13y agoIn the case of one of our infamous hellbanned posters (hint: the guy with the random text generator, attributed to "God"), I'm fairly sure that he knows he's hellbanned.
- X-Istence 13y agolosethos provides a certain amount of entertainment every so often ... the guy wrote his own OS, with his own compiler for his own language. Sure he is weird, and has his quirks, but I have to give him credit for what he has achieved.
- taway2012 13y ago> but they are usually told about it. Ummm, no. If so, why would they persist in posting using their hellbanned accounts. In any case, there are numerous threads where people have said that they had no idea they were hellbanned.
- DanBC 13y agoi) You don't tell the trolls who are hellbanned, but more importantly ii) You can't tell people if they have no contact information in their profile. You can leave a post in the thread and hope the hellbanned poster sees it.
- nekopa 13y agoWouldn't outright banning be more draconian (I browse with show dead on, so I can still read some interesting comments from time to time, this wouldn't be the case with outright bans), or are you suggesting no banning at all?
- lnanek2 13y agohellbanning is worse because the person doesn't know they are banned and almost no one sees their content. it would be much nicer to the person being banned to simply tell them they are banned and not to waste effort any more. the only reason hellbanning exists is to trick the banned person into not making a new account with a different ip. for spammers and people making personal attacks, fine. but a lot of people hellbanned are simply voicing unpopular opinions. there were several europeans in a thread recently about how europe has different rules about PC who were dead, for example, which was pretty funny but also sad
- Jgrubb 13y agoWelcome back from the dead, btw.