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Always email if you feel you have been banned. A few months ago, I posted something stupid and was down voted. Almost right afterwards, the site became extremel
by ancarda 13y ago
Always email if you feel you have been banned. A few months ago, I posted something stupid and was down voted. Almost right afterwards, the site became extremely slow but was fast when I was logged out. I thought I had been slow banned. After emailing, I was reassured my account was fine and the slowness was caused by garbage collection & caching issues.
- bdehaaff 13y agoGood point. It always makes sense to ask. I was just surprised that I heard back so quickly.
- lcampbell 13y agoOn many sites, an unauthenticated user gets content faster since it's much easier to very aggressively cache unauthenticated content -- since there is usually no user-specific page customization (e.g., so the entire response can be easily cached via varnish). Additionally, if the user cannot modify state, the cache can be made more incoherent without loss (e.g., such that the cache is only flushed every few minutes; unauthenticated users don't often notice the stale data). In some situations under high load, the same response from Varnish (which may only available to unauthenticated users) may be an order of magnitude faster than the application server, even if they're co-located on the same physical machine.
- bdehaaff 13y agoThanks for the additional details on why the slowness might have been experienced.
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- was_hellbanned 13y agoI was most likely banned for making a negative comment about a mindless HBR article. The site was being flooded with them at the time. The consensus in the commenting community was that you shouldn't downvote people without explaining why. The rule of the site is that you shouldn't complain about posts. The two are at odds, and personally I favor what the community wants, not what the site overlords dictate.