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Re:A list of Hacker News's undocumented features and behaviors by realusername on Tuesday December 26, 2023 @03:02PM (#38775484)
Thanks, I didn't know about vouching. I guess there's indeed an history behind each ban of a real user. (Not talking about spam of course, it's a different thing)
Re:A list of Hacker News's undocumented features and behaviors by lazyasciiart on Wednesday December 27, 2023 @04:05PM (#38786743)
Sometimes the history is “your account was pretty new so when you posted something a lot of people didn’t like we assumed you were a troll, banned, and never looked again”.