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Can anyone remember when the times were not hard, and money not scarce?
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Angry Jesus on Monday February 17 2014, @10:26PM
The problem with HN is the arbitrary and opaque "hell-ban." They make it hard to even know you've been banned - your posts are only visible to your account (and other people who have set an obscure flag). I set the flag because I was just fiddling with knobs one day. I saw a few people who have been submitting stories and writing posts in good faith for months not realizing that they were invisible to everyone else. Going back through their post history to see when they got hell-banned didn't reveal anything particularly egregious either so it isn't like they "should have known."
I'm sure it isn't intentionally malicious, but the effect is just outright cruel. No notification and if you do figure it out, there is no mechanism for appeal either. Given that HN is the creation of a big famous venture capitalist, I thought it was a pretty good metaphor for the industry's focus on being clever blinding them to how their work can so easily dehumanize people.