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I think it's pretty obvious if you look at the comments just prior to the [dead]ing. (It looked like ftse started exploring troll country.)
by icey 17y ago
I think it's pretty obvious if you look at the comments just prior to the [dead]ing. (It looked like ftse started exploring troll country.)
- jacquesm 17y agoI see 10's of pretty good comments, some reasonable submissions and one comment that had only reached -2 when the account was killed. Surely modding to -7 or so would have sent the same message in a better way ? If someone would persist in behaviour like that you can always get rid of them but this seems to be a bit too trigger happy for my taste. Also, in spite of being 'dead' ftse continues to participate and as far as I can see behaviour after being banned was pretty much in character with earlier postings. Take in to account the context of that comment: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=765153 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=765153 He merely answered the question, maybe not in the most elegant way but that's what you get with subjects like that.
- icey 17y agoI don't really disagree with you; I just know that it was the sort of behavior that causes accounts to get [dead]ed. There wasn't enough comment history there to know whether or not it was about to become a troll account. A large part of the reason this community has been successful is that the editors are willing to ghost accounts if it looks like someone can't play nice.