Ask PG: Why is everybody hellbanned?

Re:Ask PG: Why is everybody hellbanned? by throwaway_a on Sunday August 04, 2013 @01:09PM (#6156186)

I'm so scared to post anything that's too far from the mainstream because I don't want my 2nd account to just get destroyed. It's actually an account I want people to be able to find when Google-searching me. I end up making throwaway accts to post opinions that I highly suspect won't be popular on HN. I think the fact that downvotng can get an account marked dead is a bad design. A comment getting flagged by a bunch of people should cause dead status after manual review, but just because I post something that HN doesn't agree with, shouldn't ghostban me.

Especially considering HN isn't the most diverse community on the interwebz and someone might have a different view if they're not a financially-stable heterosexual American white male...

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Re:Ask PG: Why is everybody hellbanned? by tptacek on Sunday August 04, 2013 @01:13PM (#6156204)

Downvoting can't get your account marked dead.

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Re:Ask PG: Why is everybody hellbanned? by throwaway_a on Sunday August 04, 2013 @01:42PM (#6156324)

Is there somewhere I can read where PG officially says that? Because the last account I had got marked dead and I don't think I did anything other than post a non-popular opinion. That comment got something like negative 18. A day or 2 later, [dead]. Maybe it was just a coincidence since, after all, there are plenty of dead-accounts that when I look through their activity-history nothing jumps out at me as a punishable HN-offense.

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Re:Ask PG: Why is everybody hellbanned? by tptacek on Sunday August 04, 2013 @01:45PM (#6156337)

Nope, there's nowhere you can read that directly says that, but it is true nonetheless.

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Re:Ask PG: Why is everybody hellbanned? by throwaway_a on Sunday August 04, 2013 @01:55PM (#6156386)

Heh, okay. Can't argue with that ;)

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