Re:30 Window Managers in 30 Days
by andrewflnr on Sunday October 20, 2013 @06:25PM
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chrissmeuk has a pretty innocuous (and short) comment history (https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=chrissmeuk). The only visible clue is that someone accused them of being a Microsoft shill, and maybe someone pulled out the hellban hammer in response. There's clearly something fishy going on, on one side or another.
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I've been browsing with showdead on for a while now and more and more I see quite reasonable-looking posts that have become [dead].
My hypothesis is a little more charitable: people just get caught by some semi-automatic filter and get accidentally hellbanned. Which is still a problem.
Then I post and hardly ever get responses or upvotes, which makes me wonder if:
a) I'm hellbanned myself
b) I'm a victim of my timezone
c) My writing is not as useful as I think
a) you're alive in my world (or maybe we're both hellbanned and it's hidden from us)
b,c) combination of both. Internet is chaotic, I submitted nice links that had <10 votes and no comments, while a trivial one about a cute css button got 500+ ...