A user is trying to steal from us and I don't mind

Re:A user is trying to steal from us and I don't mind by consz on Saturday February 23, 2013 @01:37PM (#5270855)

Yeah, I had an account hellbanned here for over a year before someone finally told me. There's no way to find if someone replies to you on this forum so I rarely went back and checked if anyone replied to me, but it still bothered me that the admins would find it acceptable to let someone waste their time over an entire year without telling them their account is useless. Not to mention the additional 10-15 seconds of latency opening every page on the forum.

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Re:A user is trying to steal from us and I don't mind by ninetax on Saturday February 23, 2013 @01:45PM (#5270886)

I use http://hnnotify.com/ to get the replies to my comments. It's pretty useful.

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Re:A user is trying to steal from us and I don't mind by justincormack on Saturday February 23, 2013 @02:17PM (#5271041)

Find out if people replied to you at https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=consz

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Re:A user is trying to steal from us and I don't mind by johnreese on Saturday February 23, 2013 @03:42PM (#5271403)

HN randomly takes about 10 seconds to load for me though I've never made an account here. In case my IP was slowbanned, can someone reply to this comment?

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Re:A user is trying to steal from us and I don't mind by nitrogen on Saturday February 23, 2013 @04:26PM (#5271597)

Sometimes HN is just slow. Last I heard, it's running in a custom server in a custom Lisp language on a single core of one server.

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Re:A user is trying to steal from us and I don't mind by egypturnash on Saturday February 23, 2013 @03:55PM (#5271459)

You're perfectly visible.

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Re:A user is trying to steal from us and I don't mind by endgame on Saturday February 23, 2013 @03:25PM (#5271314)

That's roughly what my experience with reddit was like. All of my posts sat on 1 point, all of my threads would get downvoted to zero and disappear.

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Re:A user is trying to steal from us and I don't mind by GhotiFish on Saturday February 23, 2013 @01:39PM (#5270867)

HN uses hellbanning? Neat.

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Re:A user is trying to steal from us and I don't mind by 542458 on Saturday February 23, 2013 @01:50PM (#5270920)

You can actually toggle the visibility of posts from hellbanned users. Under your account settings, turn on 'showdead'.

I leave it turned on, because while hellbanned users don't often contribute a lot, many of their posts are still interesting.

For example, take losethos, who is afflicted with schizophrenia and writes his own operating systems so he can make music with God. (You'll have to turn on showdead to see his comments): http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=losethos

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Re:A user is trying to steal from us and I don't mind by nitrogen on Saturday February 23, 2013 @02:33PM (#5271105)

For what it's worth, I believe losethos is now posting as SparrowOS, and that account is also dead. It's a tragic case, really, because LoseThos/SparrowOS is a fascinating piece of software, but its author is definitely on the fringes on non-software matters.

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=SparrowOS

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Re:A user is trying to steal from us and I don't mind by duskwuff on Saturday February 23, 2013 @02:27PM (#5271088)

He changed nicks, still hellbanned:

http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=SparrowOS

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Re:A user is trying to steal from us and I don't mind by thoughtcriminal on Saturday February 23, 2013 @10:05PM (#5272592)

I hope you don't find someone who has schizophrenia and hellbanned funny. Because that would be pathetic, and you would be heartless.

I no doubt misinterpreted your comment.

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Re:A user is trying to steal from us and I don't mind by 542458 on Monday February 25, 2013 @10:56AM (#5279520)

Not at all - I'm very sorry I gave that impression!

Rather, I find it to be a interesting window into the mind of a highly intelligent programmer afflicted with a tragic mental disorder. I enjoy reading his comments because I feel it allows me to understand, if only in a tiny way, what he's going through (although maybe this is simply hubris on my part).

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