Banned HN: Post here to find if your account is dead

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I thought it might be good to start a tradition of a Banned HN thread (similar to "who's hiring") where we post and tell each other if our profiles are dead. Basically everyone who adds a comment should get an upvote. If you post and get no upvotes, you know you're gos'

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Meta kills, and with the amount of Snowden and whatnot already appearing on the front page, we can't afford the indulgence.

Do what I do (and have done): log out and check the last post you made. No need to clutter up the front page with this. :)

Yeah I don't really know if this thing is a good idea... but it's worth discussing. At least now people have a way to check thanks to you!

Don't worry, you won't find it on the front page.

Wouldn't it be easier just to check from a non-logged-in browser and see if your comments are visible?

Edit: You have to create a new account to see at what point you have been hellbanned. E.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=phillijw with showdead you can see that all his recent comments are dead, without login it will only show the comments he has made when still alive.

Also you can't get downvoted when you are dead so if you stop receiving downvotes, you either have been writing excellent comments or you've been murdered by HN assasins.

Interesting. Do dead account's not find out that they are dead? They might if they do not get any upvotes or replies after a few comments. Right?

I'm alive, or am I?

Is my account dead?

Is this real life?

Is this just fantasy?

Is my account alive?

Let's see if I'm dead.

I post, therefore, I am.

Am I dead yet? :-)

My account dead?

How about me?

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