Apple Said to Acquire Color

Re:Apple Said to Acquire Color by shiven on Thursday October 18, 2012 @06:36AM (#4668170)

Precisely my biggest problem with HN. There needs to be a way to repeal HellBanning, some sort of an appeal mechanism or a time-based auto-repeal that kicks in after say 4 weeks of good behavior such as 25 upvoted (albeit dead) comments from the HBanned user.

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Re:Apple Said to Acquire Color by millennia on Thursday October 18, 2012 @07:21AM (#4668266)

Or the admins could just reserve hellbanning for only the most persistent serious trolls. It is a useful tool but should only be used in extreme circumstances, not just for one bad comment. If it was used only once a month or every few months for persistent trolls it wouldn't be a problem.

Bad comments get voted down anyway, so there's already a mechanism for that, IMHO hellbanning should really only be used on people trying to post spam repeatedly or repetitively troll comment threads.

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Re:Apple Said to Acquire Color by morsch on Thursday October 18, 2012 @07:22AM (#4668269)

Yes, when I saw that I could still upvote dead comments, I just assumed this data would be used that way -- otherwise what's the point in being able to do it?

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Re:Apple Said to Acquire Color by RyanMcGreal on Thursday October 18, 2012 @08:45AM (#4668472)

Agreed - I like the idea of purgatorybanning for borderline users.

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