Here in my country (a developing country in Africa) internet speed is so bad you don't have to add any latency filter - just thinking out loud.
Which country is that?
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#152Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not an uncommon practice, Jeff Atwood calls it "hellbanning": https://blog.codinghorror.com/suspension-ban-or-hellban/
No, he calls it slowbanning. Hellbanning is when you let them keep posting but other people can’t see the posts. Hackernews hellbans as well and you can see the comments from the deplorables if you turn on “showdead” in your profile.
I think of myself as hard-nosed, but I don't think I could be this cruel to someone.
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#153I ran a website for youngsters several years ago. One of the duties to maintain it was to moderate discussion boards. Some kids were difficult to manage and would not accept to be banned (via email/IP/or whatever solution) and would keep recreating profiles. Ultimately I dealt with those ppl by “greylisting” them. Added a sleep() prior each page rendering of 5 to 25 secs (actually it was more sophisticated and would…
Wow! That's a clever solution.
I can see it only working when users don't know it exists.
But when secret, I imagine this would be INCREDIBLY effective, as they'll blame the experience on the software, not their behavior.
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#154Here in my country (a developing country in Africa) internet speed is so bad you don't have to add any latency filter - just thinking out loud.
Hmm. Are there any VPN providers there? :-)
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#155> Reddit with 150ms latency feels like cocaine: Reddit with 8000ms latency feels like coffee.
Reddit with Spectrum internet latency feels like water.
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#156Earlier quoted context omitted.
No, he calls it slowbanning. Hellbanning is when you let them keep posting but other people can’t see the posts. Hackernews hellbans as well and you can see the comments from the deplorables if you turn on “showdead” in your profile.
I've always thought people might catch on, since no one is engaging with their takes. I'm curious if letting bots do some markov responses might keep them in the dark a little longer.
I think nowadays you might catch on because the culpit might not be identified to your site with both their phone and their PC or something among these lines.
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#157Earlier quoted context omitted.
No, he calls it slowbanning. Hellbanning is when you let them keep posting but other people can’t see the posts. Hackernews hellbans as well and you can see the comments from the deplorables if you turn on “showdead” in your profile.
I think of myself as hard-nosed, but I don't think I could be this cruel to someone.
Reading said comments may convince you otherwise.
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I don't know about you, but my anxiety-habits are a beast. If I overtly stop myself from doing something, then I can very easily undo it. The trick is to stop the habit from triggering. My trigger for HN is stress and I can't stop it, other than the proxy delay method the author mentions. If I block myslef, then I can un-block myself. In youtube, I have multiple habits. I've curtailed the most egregious ones using th…
> Real easy to type news.ycobinator.com in the address bar. Not that easy I guess!
Quick, someone purchase ycobinator.com and make it redirect to the real site only with a 3-25 second delay!
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#159This sounds a lot like what Apple slowly does to iOS to make you buy a new phone...
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#160Alternate solution: downgrade to a dial-up ISP.