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> I'm still ranked-banned for pointing out YC's reversal on their stance about board members I am deeply skeptical of this belief. I do not believe such a thin
by scott_s 11y ago
> I'm still ranked-banned for pointing out YC's reversal on their stance about board members
I am deeply skeptical of this belief. I do not believe such a thing exists, and there are alternate explanations for the behavior you are seeing (other top-level comments have more points).
- solve 11y agoHow skeptical? How much BTC will you, or anyone, be willing put down on either of these: 1) Just bet me that it's not real, and I'll give you some very strong evidence. 2) How about I write a web-app that exposes HN's rank-banning - who's getting rank-banned and what for. You'd be surprised at how it's being used. I found a way of proving it that I'm sure you'll agree is quite accurate, for cases where this approach can be used. :) Edit: Re: lucb1e, the reason is that I'm far from being the only person who's rank-banned / dead here. Sometimes several comment in the same thread. Re: scott_s, Hey man, no need to insult me. If you don't want to see the hard evidence, then I won't show it to you. Don't worry.
- lucb1e 11y agoLooking at one of your most recent comments, it's not at the bottom of the page. And besides, if you're broke, perhaps betting is not the best thing to do.
- philh 11y agoI looked too, and solve's comments all seemed to be either at the bottom, or below every comment that wasn't downvoted or dead. Do you have a counterexample? I think it's reasonably likely that rank-banning is real and that solve is rank-banned. I think it's unlikely that ve was rank-banned for pointing out YC's reversal on their stance about board members; but plausible that ve was rank-banned for other reasons, in a comment where ve did that.
- lucb1e 11y ago> or below every comment that wasn't downvoted That could be yeah, but he isn't stuck at dead-bottom.
- scott_s 11y agoAs I said, deeply skeptical, as I rather like and respect the individuals who run this place. But I will not spend any effort betting someone on that, as it is not a good use of my time, and I feel it is insulting to those individuals who I greatly respect. I will note, however, that I am continually disturbed by the preponderance of conspiratorial thinking that pervades discussion of how HN works. In particular, how often individuals tend to use their own theory for evidence of their own theory.
- DanBC 11y agoRank-banning is a thing. I'm not sure about the cause in this user's case.
- scott_s 11y agoI know that some submissions can get penalized based on their domain, and that non-URL submissions have a penalty, but I am unaware of any point-penalty against particular user comments outside of banning. What makes you say rank-banning is a thing?
- DanBC 11y agoHave a look at this post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9438610 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9438610 Some of the deleted comments are me not wanting to get drawn into a discussion about particular users and etc.