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Poor guy. The hellbanning system on ycombinator is terrible. Hellbanning should be reserved for the most obnoxious of spammers, not for random innocents.
by runn1ng 13y ago
Poor guy.
The hellbanning system on ycombinator is terrible. Hellbanning should be reserved for the most obnoxious of spammers, not for random innocents.
- baby 13y agois it that bad? A lot of people enable the option to see ghost comments. And then act when needed. It's called auto-moderation and it does seem to work.
- deleted 13y ago[deleted]
- mburns 13y agoIt works, but not well. Case in point: It took 18 months for this user to be discovered.
- timdorr 13y agoOr it should be able to be lifted if their comments get enough upvotes from people that have showdead enabled.
- pekk 13y agoit's a nice idea but susceptible to people making their own vote rings to unban themselves
- corin_ 13y agoWhy would they bother? The point of hellbanning is to stop people who don't realise nobody is seeing their comments, if they realise it then they'd just create a new account rather than a vote ring.
- theknown99 13y agoIt's far easier to just logout, and create a new account.
- roryokane 13y agoI remember on some HN thread about 6 months ago that pg acknowledged that hellbanning is not always ideal, but he said that he didn’t have time to spare to implement any alternative form of banning in the software. And HN is not open-source, so if pg doesn’t have time to write the feature, there’s nothing anyone else can do to help.