Re:How I Was Unbanned from Hacker News (2013)
by meesles on Wednesday December 29, 2021 @02:43PM
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I'm talking about after the fact, after they've been told the reason for the ban. In his followup to his ordeal, his only insight at the end is:
> So, the lesson is that sometimes when technology fails us and algorithms go wrong, humans can step in and make things right.
So sticking to my original point, something more aware would sound like: "Oh, I see how my activity could have been perceived as spam. Luckily humans can step in and help when algos are overly aggressive".
The fact that they're so quick to dismiss this issue as purely the technology's fault is what irked me. I think it was fair for them not to know ahead of time.
Well, how about some charity here?
They expected profanity, trolling, porn, ads, bad content, etc. to be banned, not their legit submission. "Posting multiple times from the same site" didn't occur to them as an issue, and it makes sense, since they had already done that with no issue before.
>Post is also 8 years old so who cares?
Why, did anything change to render it obsolete? People don't get banned on HN anymore? The story stopped being amusing?