I've pinged dang on some previous threads which I'd have liked to see discussed.
He's been commenting for a few years now about being pretty much maxed out on his moderation and email capacity, and intensive posts simply cannot get the moderation that's required for substantive discussion. He (and other mods, and member flags) can clean up the worst messes account bans are fairly frequent (107 public bans in the past year: <https://hn.algolia.com/?dateEnd=1737783933&dateRange=custom&...>
I'd been meaning to do that check for a few weeks (I'd asked dang about ban frequency and trends, he doesn't have data handy). At least over the past five years its ... reasonably constant. How many unannounced bans occur of course I don't know.
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Probably, yes.
I've pinged dang on some previous threads which I'd have liked to see discussed.
He's been commenting for a few years now about being pretty much maxed out on his moderation and email capacity, and intensive posts simply cannot get the moderation that's required for substantive discussion. He (and other mods, and member flags) can clean up the worst messes account bans are fairly frequent (107 public bans in the past year: <https://hn.algolia.com/?dateEnd=1737783933&dateRange=custom&...>
Contrast:
- 2023-01-25 -- 2024-01-24: 268 <https://hn.algolia.com/?dateEnd=1706076402&dateRange=custom&...>
- 2022-01-25 -- 2023-01-24: 307 <https://hn.algolia.com/?dateEnd=1674540385&dateRange=custom&...>
- 2021-01-25 -- 2022-01-24: 323 <https://hn.algolia.com/?dateEnd=1643004366&dateRange=custom&...>
- 2020-01-25 -- 2021-01-24: 269 <https://hn.algolia.com/?dateEnd=1611468339&dateRange=custom&...>
- 2019-01-25 -- 2020-01-25: 255 <https://hn.algolia.com/?dateEnd=1579845921&dateRange=custom&...>
I'd been meaning to do that check for a few weeks (I'd asked dang about ban frequency and trends, he doesn't have data handy). At least over the past five years its ... reasonably constant. How many unannounced bans occur of course I don't know.