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Re: What Happened to the Facebook Killer? It's Complicated by zheng on Sunday October 07, 2012 @10:35PM (#4625260)
It's generally so that the person in question knows they've been hellbanned, as it can be difficult to tell if you have been without someone mentioning it.
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Re: What Happened to the Facebook Killer? It's Complicated by LiveTheDream on Sunday October 07, 2012 @10:56PM (#4625309)
The purpose of hellbanning is precisely so the person in question doesn't know.
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Re: What Happened to the Facebook Killer? It's Complicated by tedunangst on Sunday October 07, 2012 @11:23PM (#4625383)
The purpose of hellbanning is to prevent people from ruining the site. How exactly josephcooney was ruining HN by posting "The question didn't seem rude to me at all, either. Why is plain communication so often taken as cynicism/sarcasm?" is a mystery to me.
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Re: What Happened to the Facebook Killer? It's Complicated by LiveTheDream on Sunday October 07, 2012 @11:43PM (#4625427)
I don't know why he was hellbanned; I was just explaining the purpose of hellbanning. FWIW after skimming through josephcooney's history, I am also mystified as to why it happened.
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Re: What Happened to the Facebook Killer? It's Complicated by rangibaby on Monday October 08, 2012 @07:25AM (#4626336)
The first thing that came my mind is a mod or bot might have seen his handle and considered it a troll account b/c of it's similarity to Joseph Kony
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Re: What Happened to the Facebook Killer? It's Complicated by carmen on Monday October 08, 2012 @12:14AM (#4625475)
emotional responses by weird aspies is not particularly surprising to me
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