Automate download, install, config of IE-only VM's with VirtualBox (Linux/OSX)

Re:Automate download, install, config of IE-only VM's with V... by tripzilch on Saturday September 03, 2011 @08:39AM (#2957162)

I don't seem to see his posts unless I enable "showdead".

I didn't even know karma worked this way on HN. Quite ridiculous, IMHO, to completely hide someone if their karma runs too low. Especially if it can happen by unfortunate accident and ends up hiding a positive contributor completely from view--basically means the system is broken.

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Re:Automate download, install, config of IE-only VM's with V... by pygy_ on Saturday September 03, 2011 @10:04AM (#2957288)

The dead-ban system makes the life of the moderators much easier by starving trolls who would otherwise create a new account as soon as they got banned. At HN's scale, it is necessary.

This case is unfortunate, though, but I guess that's why the showdead option exists.

I don't know if a negative karma turns on an irreversible ban flag, or if going back to positive will alleviate the ban. If not, I'll write a mail to pg.

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