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It points to a pathology of HN that someone discussing their experience with a specific technology is getting downvoted and flagged for describing their own exp
by olefoo 12y ago
It points to a pathology of HN that someone discussing their experience with a specific technology is getting downvoted and flagged for describing their own experiences. This is not reddit, the downvote is not meant for enforcing groupthink.
I'm in favor of Postgres, I make my living in large part from my expertise with it; but it rubs me the wrong way when people downvote an informative comment covering someone's experience where it didn't happen to be the right tool.
no_future I apologise to you for the poor reception your comment got from immature people who don't understand how to discuss things and who cannot handle new information. This did not used to be representative of the community here.
- raquo 12y agoI think it's more likely that no_future was shadow-banned for their previous comment.
- mercurial 12y agoWhat I don't like about shadow-banning is that it's a death sentence without warning appeal for a single misstep. Drank a bit too much and typed a comment you're going to regret the next morning? Shadowban. At least, that's what it looks like from the history of the few shadowbanned people I looked at.
- icebraining 12y agoI believe that if you have a good history, you're much less likely to be shadowbanned. In this case, no_future actually has negative karma.
- philh 12y agoCounterexample: no_future has a lot of downvoted comments, and vis total karma is (slightly) negative. (I would guess that it was slightly positive until yesterday, and then ve received a lot of downvotes on a single comment and got autobanned.) This wasn't a single misstep, it was just the first one that attracted much attention.
- jessaustin 12y agoThanks, I hadn't seen those pronouns before.
- angersock 12y agoFrankly, who gives a shit? Even a broken clock is right twice a day. I'd much rather filter out the trolling from the useful experiences myself than have somebody shadowbanned because people disagreed with them. Remember, downvotes signal disagreement, not civility. This is a problem.
- grey-area 12y agoIt points to a pathology of HN that someone discussing their experience with a specific technology is getting downvoted and flagged for describing their own experiences. He was shadowbanned because of his previous trollicious comment, not the one below, so your assumptions here are incorrect. Perhaps the mods are a bit quick to shadowban (or the algos they use are) - I personally think it should be reserved for persistent trolls, but have some sympathy - moderating a community like this is a hard, thankless task and there is an endless supply of toxic trolls. I'm sure if he asks nicely they'd reinstate the account.