The CIA's Quest for Mind Control: Torture, LSD and a 'Poisoner in Chief'

Re:The CIA's Quest for Mind Control: Torture, LSD and a 'Poi... by DoreenMichele on Monday November 23, 2020 @03:49AM (#25184804)

If you use the search function at the bottom of the page and look for "dang shadow ban" you can come up with multiple comments by the moderator talking about HN policies, such as this one that I have quoted in part:

We do tell people that we're banning them, and why: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... - but only once the account has an established history. We treat new accounts differently, for reasons I've explained before. I'll try to dig that up... Edit: here you go:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21288858

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20666742

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20289994

It's a bimodal distribution in that we treat these disjoint groups very differently. With established accounts, we warn them before banning, usually several times, and then tell them we're banning them and why. With new accounts, we don't say we're banning because the population of banned-new-accounts is overwhelmingly spammers and trolls, often serial trolls who have been banned many times and know perfectly well what they're doing.

Link to the entire comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23686672

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Re:The CIA's Quest for Mind Control: Torture, LSD and a 'Poi... by gitweb on Monday November 23, 2020 @07:38AM (#25186106)

So what is a new account? Let's say that they've posted hundreds of times, or the account is over 30 days or 90 days old? You're telling me you still don't shadowban if they go below a certain threshold and that you don't rate limit to maybe one or two responses in a 2 hour period. Also, how do you contact them specifically? What if someone has proof of not being contacted. Are you going to retract your statement?

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