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Ask PG: Please consider a resurrection vote for the undead amongst us

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Re: Ask PG: Please consider a resurrection vote for the undead amongst us

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Post by bjz_ »

This is not my first account. 'bjz' was hell-banned: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=bjz It was very disheartening - it was a year before I decided to re-register.

Anyway, I understand the reasoning behind the current system (HN is a huge target for potential spammers), but it really does create a climate of fear. Unfortunately I don't have a solution to this.

Re: Ask PG: Please consider a resurrection vote for the undead amongst us

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Post by bjz_ »

pbhjpbhj wrote: post #15
jere wrote: post #5

This actually wasn't my first account. I lurked for a while and then finally decided to join. When I first joined, I commented for a few weeks and then stumbled into a conversation that involved Steve Jobs and poaching employees. The top comment was talking about how greedy Jobs was and I replied pointing out that he had taken $1 in salary and no stocks for several years. I wasn't totally clear in my first comment an…

How did you know you were "ghost banned"? Do you get an email or something?

It was quite some time ago that I was hell-banned, but I think it was because my account got progressively slower, and I wasn't getting any replies or upvotes. I think I might of googled 'why is hacker news slow', and that's how I found out.

Re: Ask PG: Please consider a resurrection vote for the undead amongst us

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Post by wavefunction »

unethical_ban wrote: post #34

Inherent in getting shadowbanned is not knowing or understanding why it occurred. My previous account had almost a thousand points, and though I made the occasional drunk rant, they were rightfully downvoted. To take away someone's voice, who clearly isn't a spammer, without them knowing, is a shitty thing to do.

Yeah, I certainly have my "moments" where I say something stupid or out of line, and I take the downvotes as a rightful correction to my excesses, generally speaking.

That said, I mostly just upvote interesting comments and ignore the rest.

Re: Ask PG: Please consider a resurrection vote for the undead amongst us

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Post by alayne »

lotharbot wrote: post #33
smacktoward wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was partly shadow-banned myself, on this account -- my comments would show up, but not my submissions. I only figured it out months after it happened (I just assumed the things I was submitting weren't catching peoples' interest for some reason), which was frustrating. At the time the account had more than 4,000 karma, which I would have thought would have been a decent indicator that I wasn't a troll. I eventually…

I also got some sort of partial "status reduction", less than a full ban: my ability to flag posts disappeared. I sent an e-mail and got it reinstated. But I still have no idea what I might have done wrong, and neither does the HN moderator who reinstated me. I understand that the HN mods don't want to have to explain every action, and when someone really deserves a partial or full ban they don't want to announce it…

I lost flag ability recently. I must have overdone it. I had definitely been flagging a lot of non-tech posts that seem better suited for general news sites.
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