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Well chances are that the OP I responded to (I can't even see his name well enough to repeat it he's so faded now) will have his account ghosted if he keeps thi
by GigabyteCoin 13y ago
Well chances are that the OP I responded to (I can't even see his name well enough to repeat it he's so faded now) will have his account ghosted if he keeps this up. One too many mega-downvote-comments by a new user and you end up being ghosted. Where you still think you're posting to HN, and you are, but nobody else can read it.
All I was saying is perhaps if pg et all decreased whatever threshold they have set for account ghosting, that we may see less of these pointless comments in the future.
- SwellJoe 13y agoIt is not automatic, as far as I know. It requires human intervention for someone to be hellbanned, or "ghosted". It isn't very systematic, and I've seen people hellbanned who probably didn't deserve it (and it usually does get fixed when that happens).
- GigabyteCoin 13y agoPerhaps it would make sense to automatically hellban possibly problematic posters and then hand review those hellbans later. Worst case scenario is a good posters posts aren't seen for a short period of time.