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on July 25, 2012
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That's disturbing since a hellbanning is a much more vile punishment than a simple ban. Why is it doled out so casually?
Natsu
on July 25, 2012
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It's probably a case of an anti-spam algorithm gone wrong. At least, that's what I remember hearing about a previous incident.
heretohelp
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No, it's almost always done directly by a human if your account itself is hellbanned.
Natsu
on July 27, 2012
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The only case I'm aware of where pg has commented indicated that a person posted a link that was being spammed on HN in one of their comments and got banned accidentally.
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