ag80: That's one of the motivations behind lobsters. I think if HN were a little more transparent, it would mitigate the cold feeling of being hell banned. When

ag80: That's one of the motivations behind lobsters. I think if HN were a little more transparent, it would mitigate the cold feeling of being hell banned. When I thought I had been shadow banned, it was like being banished from the internet. It really felt horrible. Knowing that I'd have gotten a warning/notification means if the site is slow, I'd brush it off as high latency. Now every time the site is a little slow, I panic and think I've been slow banned.