Nothing against HN, but you must not visit a lot of sites if you can't name one site that moderates better than HN. Lest we forget, there are several people who

Nothing against HN, but you must not visit a lot of sites if you can't name one site that moderates better than HN. Lest we forget, there are several people who have been hellbanned for multiple years without any clue. They waste a significant portion of their life talking to nobody because the person who developed the site felt passive aggressive was better than just banning someone outright and preventing them from rejoining. With incognito mode checking if you're hellbanned is a five second operation, yet dang hasn't replaced that aspect of HN despite its futility and childishness. Most of those bans I've seen have been enough to make me cock an eyebrow, as well. When you get banned from a subreddit you are told, by the system, via private message. Reddit has user-level shadowbanning as well, but I've only ever seen it used when it was warranted, like doxxing -- here, some of the hellbanned comment histories mystify me. Reddit certainly has its own share of weirdness but in my opinion, /r/askscience (to use one example) has absolutely incredible moderation that makes HN pale in comparison.