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Yes he used to post on HN quite a bit, most of his posts get down voted into oblivion however because few knew who he was and his mental illness makes for some

Yes he used to post on HN quite a bit, most of his posts get down voted into oblivion however because few knew who he was and his mental illness makes for some abrasive comments.

vidarh 12y ago
He still posts now and again, but whenever he makes new accounts they tend to get hellbanned fairly quickly so his audience here is mostly those of us with showdead on.
- sitkack 12y ago
  There is a deeper message in that comment, "... his audience is those of us with showdead ..."
  - Lapsa 12y ago
    thank you for this. powerful message.
gohrt 12y ago
I think his accounts got hellbanned, because he posted a large number of non-sensical comments. Objectively speaking, the comments were low-quality as published. To reach a larger audience, they would need some volunteers to separate and clean up the good ideas, and discard the nonsense.
- kalleboo 12y ago
  > I think his accounts got hellbanned, because he posted a large number of non-sensical comments. A lot of his comments are "words direct from god" as determined by the random number generator in his OS.
- thaumaturgy 12y ago
  > ...they would need some volunteers to separate and clean up the good ideas, and discard the nonsense. I wish this was a feature on HN actually. It'd be nice if some accounts had the ability to "un-dead" a comment, in the same way that some accounts can flag or unflag posts and comments now. I browse with showdead on and occasionally run across a comment from a submitter where the submitter was hellbanned for a specific incident but the comment itself is worthwhile.
  - nostrademons 12y ago
    I have a suspicion that if enough high-karma users upvote a dead comment, it becomes undead. I've seen dead comments become live again after I've upvoted them; it doesn't happen every time, but I wouldn't be surprised if multiple upvotes is a signal to undead a comment.
  - e12e 12y ago
    I think HN comments will continue to approximate slashdot's old comment system, as features are slowly added... first moderation, then meta-moderation...
ogig 12y ago
He still posts from time to time, but his posts are auto dead. It's one of the reasons i set show dead posts on.
frontline 12y ago
he's racist as hell
- muyuu 12y ago
  Well, he has some issues.
  - serf 12y ago
    one of them being racism, another being the inability to control said racism.
    - Vivtek 12y ago
      No, one of them being a delusional disorder, which is literally the inability to know what is reality. I think racism is a pretty minor thing to throw at the guy when he literally cannot tell whether it makes sense or not.
- deleted 12y ago
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Yes he used to post on HN quite a bit, most of his posts get down voted into oblivion however because few knew who he was and his mental illness makes for some abrasive comments.

vidarh 12y ago

He still posts now and again, but whenever he makes new accounts they tend to get hellbanned fairly quickly so his audience here is mostly those of us with showdead on.

sitkack 12y ago
There is a deeper message in that comment, "... his audience is those of us with showdead ..."
- Lapsa 12y ago
  thank you for this. powerful message.

gohrt 12y ago

I think his accounts got hellbanned, because he posted a large number of non-sensical comments. Objectively speaking, the comments were low-quality as published. To reach a larger audience, they would need some volunteers to separate and clean up the good ideas, and discard the nonsense.

kalleboo 12y ago
> I think his accounts got hellbanned, because he posted a large number of non-sensical comments. A lot of his comments are "words direct from god" as determined by the random number generator in his OS.
thaumaturgy 12y ago
> ...they would need some volunteers to separate and clean up the good ideas, and discard the nonsense. I wish this was a feature on HN actually. It'd be nice if some accounts had the ability to "un-dead" a comment, in the same way that some accounts can flag or unflag posts and comments now. I browse with showdead on and occasionally run across a comment from a submitter where the submitter was hellbanned for a specific incident but the comment itself is worthwhile.
- nostrademons 12y ago
  I have a suspicion that if enough high-karma users upvote a dead comment, it becomes undead. I've seen dead comments become live again after I've upvoted them; it doesn't happen every time, but I wouldn't be surprised if multiple upvotes is a signal to undead a comment.
- e12e 12y ago
  I think HN comments will continue to approximate slashdot's old comment system, as features are slowly added... first moderation, then meta-moderation...

ogig 12y ago

He still posts from time to time, but his posts are auto dead. It's one of the reasons i set show dead posts on.

frontline 12y ago

he's racist as hell

muyuu 12y ago
Well, he has some issues.
- serf 12y ago
  one of them being racism, another being the inability to control said racism.
  - Vivtek 12y ago
    No, one of them being a delusional disorder, which is literally the inability to know what is reality. I think racism is a pretty minor thing to throw at the guy when he literally cannot tell whether it makes sense or not.
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