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Comment by sdegutis | Hacker News Reader

Man it's times like this that I wish the mods didn't turn my votes into shadow-votes (a la shadow-ban) and that my votes actually worked.

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Indeed, 5 out of 6 top-level comments currently being attempts at cracking jokes. What a graveyard of a comment section.

It's not just joke. It's the fact that it way too closely resembled the writing style of big-city newspaper articles, trying to "subtly" play on double-meaning words. It's just so awful.

How do you know?

They never ever adjust the position or color of any comment. They used to, until the day the mods labeled my account a "troll" account a few years ago. Now my posting is rate-limited, and my votes do nothing. Even after changing my behavior on HN, they refused to reverse their decision.

Let that be a warning to everyone here, never to post comments or links the HN mods do not approve of. Their vengeance is moderate and permanent.

Stating your case using the contact link is always an option.

Yep done that. That's when they basically said nope too bad so sad.

Time to create a new account.

Meh. I'd rather just continue scaling back my time spent here. It's becoming a more and more worthless site every day.

I worry that this will happen (or has happened) to me: I regularly use vouch to vouch for comments which I believe are unfairly flagged. Does that offend the moderators? I have no idea.

Yes is does. If you vouch for comments that get flagkilled your flagging/vouching rights get automatically removed quite quickly.

Same happened to me on another account. Long standing account with karma over 1000. One little spat and the account got rate limited and its votes did nothing - its flagging rights remained though for some weird reason... Since then I've been on throwaways.

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