Comment by gamblor956 | Hacker News Reader

Comment by gamblor956 | Hacker News Reader

It's entirely possible that he was silentbanned and has been trying to post the entire time but HN is silently rejecting his posts. This happened to my primary account at around the same time edw519 stopped posting. I took a similar position about the Scwhartz situation in my comments on that account. I can log in with that account, but attempting to post comments will either mysteriously time out or no comments will be posted (even with showdead) after a minute or two of pageloading. (This is not a connection issue; posting from this account never has such lag.)

If he was silentbanned, he'll be able to post again the next time management lifts the silentbans.

No, because anyone with showdead turned on would see that.

I believe there is another step beneath hellbanning where it doesn't show up at all.

No, there isn't. Nor for that matter is edw519 banned in any way.

Double secret probation, just admit it.

Feature request: below a certain threshold, recolor each letter of comment in alternating circus colors.

Easy enough to do yourself -- just write a userscript to look for

  <font color=#e6e6e6>

in the case of the parent comment, and then do some simple monkeying with the inner HTML (the comment).

If this is really the case, perhaps he does not wish to return to a site that silentbanned him for having a dissenting opinion.

It isn't silentbanned but slowbanned, hacker news gets very very slow and almost impossible to use unless you wait the very long times to post your dead comment.

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