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Re:H-1B visas mainly go to Indian outsourcing firms by shouldbworking on Tuesday April 18, 2017 @11:38PM (#14145275)
The account is likely shadowdead or some variant of it. A lot of places have a "silent ban" to stop unwanted trolls from continuing to make accounts.

The "silent" part means the user is cajoled into believing they're not banned. One of the ways to do this is to not kill their comments until a couple people reply to them. That way the system can tell them they have +3 votes or whatever when in reality nobody after the first 2 minutes even sees their post. If nobody ever replied to them it would look suspicious.

Not totally sure that's whats happening but it looks like it

Re:H-1B visas mainly go to Indian outsourcing firms by spangry on Wednesday April 19, 2017 @12:34AM (#14145461)
Fair enough. Sounds like, in all probability, it's just an 'overly twitchy' algorithm somewhere; no system is perfect I guess.