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Re:The First Complete Map of the Ocean Floor Is Stirring Con... by mercer on Friday July 14, 2017 @02:18AM (#14767916)
Indeed. I have them tagged as 'shitposter' (with the HN Enhancement Suite Chrome extension), but I just had a look and I'm not even sure why I felt that tag was justified.

At worst there's a lot of 'low-quality' rambling, but usually I then tag the user as 'shitty poster' (my approach to categorization can be a bit odd) and I'll downvote the worst of the comments when I see them.

Could it be that after a certain number of heavily downvoted comments it causes an automatic shadowban? Or maybe some deleted or edited comments that were reason to do so?

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Re:The First Complete Map of the Ocean Floor Is Stirring Con... by consz on Friday July 14, 2017 @04:27AM (#14768381)
I suspect it's because he posts reddit-style free writing stories. Maybe a year or two that was unacceptable on HN, but given that at this point, HN and reddit are indistinguishable from each other, I agree that there's no point in keeping him shadowbanned.
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Re:The First Complete Map of the Ocean Floor Is Stirring Con... by TeMPOraL on Friday July 14, 2017 @06:33AM (#14768777)
Stories were always welcome. Complaints comparing HN and Reddit are an annoying occurence since time immemorial, too.
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Re:The First Complete Map of the Ocean Floor Is Stirring Con... by rosser on Friday July 14, 2017 @12:22PM (#14771013)
Calling them "indistinguishable" is the kind of "welp!" hyperbole that excuses — no, encourages — the slide you bemoan.

If that's what HN is, congratulations: You just helped make it that way a little bit more.

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Re:The First Complete Map of the Ocean Floor Is Stirring Con... by consz on Monday July 17, 2017 @06:22PM (#14792734)
I'm not sure where your hostile tone is coming from -- I prefer reddit to HN, and don't have any issues with them being (more) similar. I only used that as a descriptor for his stories because I've heard that used as an explicit reason for people having downvoted/flagged similar types of posts in the past.
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