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Re:Amazon Career Choice Program by qq66 on Tuesday July 24, 2012 @10:16PM (#4289065)
Why on earth was earl "hellbanned"? His post completely made sense and his account has 4334 karma. I'm emailing him now to tell him.
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Re:Amazon Career Choice Program by heretohelp on Wednesday July 25, 2012 @12:09AM (#4289325)
It happens to a lot of people.
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Re:Amazon Career Choice Program by qq66 on Wednesday July 25, 2012 @02:35AM (#4289689)
That's disturbing since a hellbanning is a much more vile punishment than a simple ban. Why is it doled out so casually?
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Re:Amazon Career Choice Program by Natsu on Wednesday July 25, 2012 @07:53AM (#4290421)
It's probably a case of an anti-spam algorithm gone wrong. At least, that's what I remember hearing about a previous incident.
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Re:Amazon Career Choice Program by heretohelp on Wednesday July 25, 2012 @05:14PM (#4293081)
No, it's almost always done directly by a human if your account itself is hellbanned.
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Re:Amazon Career Choice Program by Natsu on Friday July 27, 2012 @05:39AM (#4300683)
The only case I'm aware of where pg has commented indicated that a person posted a link that was being spammed on HN in one of their comments and got banned accidentally.
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