Ask HN: comments automatically killed?
Hello,
I want to know why do I see dead comments? It looks like comments by specific users are killed automatically? Why?
Sometimes, I imagine, users may get auto killed prematurely; if their first submission appears to be obvious spam, for example. But, I wouldn't think that would happen often.
If the site has a honeypot system that shows the autodeleted comments only to the user that made them, that's clever, if a little much.
If it just instantly deletes them, that's lame, it'd be better just to ban him.
If this is being done by a moderator manually, that's fucking awful, and the moderator should be banned.
PG said before that his solution with fighting trolls and spammers is to make it impossible for them to see that they're being killed. That way, unlike banning, they don't make new accounts.