https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
Once an account has a history on HN, we tell people that we're banning them and why.
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
Might allay some of the accusations we're seeing here of accused abuses.
If that's right, then it's worse than that, because then metaness would consume a lot more resources than it already does, starving the rest of the site of other things we need to work on. That would be a vicious feedback loop; I'd rather look for virtuous ones.
I perceive no corresponding change in the amount of meta threads about mis-moderation; noodling debates based on random accusations are still evergreen here.
If I were involved in moderating HN (thank Christ I'm not), I'd conclude that substantive process-level changes aimed at quelling these kinds of debates probably aren't a productive goal.
Well, I never!