C2 was interesting in that software developers and IT professionals tried to categorize debates and disagreements over software engineering issues. Almost nothing was ever settled, but you got different perspectives. For example, is the "best" software about maximizing economics & psychology (human grokking), or symbolic parsimony? Is it better to hire 5 geniuses or 10 ordinary engineers?
It's honestly pretty upsetting that one vandal is enough to ruin one of the oldest and most significant institutions on the web for everybody.
On Topic: there was a discussion a year ago about what the progress block is: https://github.com/WardCunningham/remodeling/issues/24
It seems that he's stuck with some files that are mixed-encoding and can't repair them, it's likely the wiki will be read-only until that problem is solved, unfortunately.
On Topic again: c2.com is great, I'd love if someone would take ownership and keep maintaining it.
Hacker News uses shadow-banning, so the person banned for problematic behaviour can't tell and doesn't just switch to a new account.
>In my profile, what does showdead do?
>If you turn it on, you'll see all the stories and comments that have been killed by software, moderators, or user flags.
This is what people refer to when they say shadow/hellbanned.