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joccam

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Public activity
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About joccam

[2012-04-01 Sun: -18 karma] --- no April Fools! [lowest -19 karma] --- do not know how it went up to -18. [original karma hit: -2] --- totally oblivious to YCHN karma bullying.

Courtesy some karma bullies and a seriously broken karma system, I'm a YCombinator Hacker News leper (hellbanned without any explanation, due diligence, or recourse).

I'd tell you about my wonderful new posts, but you can't see them (past March 6, 2012). Only I can (and super-users?). Apparently, there's no way to recover from karma bullying... ever. And noone can even find my posts to help me recover karma (no matter how good the posts), since my shiny new posts never show up... to vote up (or even bully down). I'm invisible.

It's like I don't even exist. Except to me, that is! YCHN likes to pretend my posts are properly published, but I'll tell you a little secret... it's a lie. So you couldn't help my account recover "karma" even if you wanted to because my posts are invisible and for all practical purposes inaccessible! In other words, YCHN has vetoed not just my participation but (apparently) my existence. And once you are all but invisible and non-existent, how can anyone help you recover from karma bullying?

And if noone can hear you scream, why would anyone care? YCHN certainly does not.

What a wonderful, open discourse, balanced, tolerant, and self-healing system YCHN has implemented, dontcha think?

Long live karma bullying at YCHN!

-=-

What is the lowest karma in the system? Is my -18 "impressive," or just a flash in the pan? Can you get lower somehow, or is negative karma a one-shot wonder?

Recent public activity

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    Comment #3815155

    Ditto. First comment(s) downvoted here too... by karma bigwig. I call it karma bullying. No explanation, aside from bigwig contradictions + downvoting. No real discussion, no arc o…

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    Comment #3800308

    nice mnemonic!-)

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    Comment #3800279

    Yup. My introduction to YCHNews was hate points. Then I got slammed by some karma bullies. Now I'm at -18 karma. Pretty amusing actually. I think some people have too many points a…

  4. comment
    Comment #3782477

    Perfect topic for me to post on... as apparently I'm hell banned. My previous posting is invisible (even from same IP address). As usual, YCombinator Hacker News is a total joke...…

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    Comment #3782454

    Other problems. 1) Karma bullies abuse the down voting system. 2) Unpopular disruptive knowledge is trivially targeted by bullies. 3) It's not just down voting and bullies which ar…

  6. comment
    Comment #3772354

    You need a category for negative karma. TY.

  7. comment
    Comment #3772351

    news.ycombinator.com: nasty experience so far. Got bullied by some reputation whores. My reputation went from -2 to -19... and I even got locked _completely_ out of news.ycombinato…

  8. comment
    Comment #3690615

    FUNNY I was trying to figure out what the "avg:" was in profiles. Then I compared a couple, and one bully (bullying someone else this time) had modest avg: while the victim had ver…

  9. comment
    Comment #3690395

    Free jollies: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3688408

  10. comment
    Comment #3688408

    Yeah, this YCombinator/HN site is socially degenerate and (I gather) fundamentally broken. When I posted my question, I was at -2. Then after reading your post, I commented on a te…

  11. comment
    Comment #3670464

    FYI, I'm very likely target audience --- at least, I've been on slashdot.org for years. Is that target audience enough?

  12. comment
    Comment #3670459

    Thanks for enlightening me re: censorship of posts. The first version of my post included a paragraph raising the issue of censorship (since I could not find my comment with a page…

  13. comment
    Comment #3670433

    If CD quality (44.1 KHz/16 bit) is that good, why hasn't the market for vinyl (analogue >> 192 KHz/24-bit) just withered away and died (instead of reviving)?

  14. comment
    Comment #3670409

    The psychological component is a red herring. Even though I already have a system (bias), I don't care about the other systems. I went to the show for enjoyment, education, and app…

  15. comment
    Comment #3670378

    Isn't science verified through (wait for it...) experimentation? So how does my hearing not invalidate your science? That's the problem with the theoretical science. When it's fals…

  16. comment
    Comment #3670360

    Sometimes less is more. The debate goes on. Why not just let the music play? And by that I mean high resolution music. All you need is one person who can hear high frequencies, and…

  17. comment
    Comment #3670286

    Thank you for the constructive and positive feedback --- breath of fresh air. The politics red flag you raise seems appropriate for a technical site like this one (but the topic of…

  18. story
    Why is my account -2? No explanation?

    Why is my account -2? No explanation? I see -1 on a comment from 41 days ago. However, there's no explanation and no accountability --- no one's name is attached to the -1. Where d…

  19. comment
    Comment #3504824

    Then fix "our" Constitution.

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    Comment #3504803

    To illegalize lobbying permanently, we have to clean house as a nation (easier said than done). That amounts to doing at least three things on a permanent basis: 1. Purge congress,…