Ask PG: Please allow us to report incorrectly dead accounts
I come across accounts that are incorrectly dead all the time. For example there are two at the bottom here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3669688
Both are dead and should not be.
Please add a flag link to posts from dead accounts that would report the account to moderators to double check that it really should be dead.
I come across dead accounts in virtually every story and almost all of them should not be dead. Whatever moderation you have going on is far too strict.
I also think you should require at least one flagged post before killing an account for having too low of a karma.
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http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=ristretto (karma 835)
http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=ignifero (karma 1761)
It's my understanding that it is a normal thing here. I mostly visit the community for the curated frontpage links. I also have showdead on, as i often find engaging but controversial opinions at the bottom. Typically the top spaces are occupied by either extremely long posts or some very politically correct opinions that offer nothing as debate fodder. Anyway, given that this is a corporate forum, i think i can live with that.
I would suggest at least letting us know when we are hellbanned, it is a pain to talk to a black hole.
Once I noticed, I emailed PG and he fixed it some hours later. Not a terribly scalable solution, but it got the job done.
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2011/06/suspension-ban-or-h...
http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=generators
http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=donnawarellp
http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=zzz90210
They have negative karma (which is why they were killed), but they are not spammers.
The last guy... eh, I can kind of see your point as it's a new account. His mistake was making a subjective comment before he had enough karma to withstand the downvotes. Should that be a fatal mistake according to HN's law of natural selection? I would argue yes, as I think one should prove their value to the community before making those types of comments, but I can see why some would find it distasteful.
Perhaps you can explain the issue as you see it?
Housekeeping? Do you even know what killed accounts are?
> I am not sure I understand what your problem is here.
That's pretty obvious. But please try to understand it before assuming there is no problem.
PS. I just realized why you think they are not active! You don't have showdead turned on in your profile, so their dead posts are hidden to you.
bdfh42 asked you to explain it as you see it. I think they are trying to understand it.