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Riiis you have been hellbanned. Contact admins and perhaps ask them what rule exactly you contravened with this one comment - the hellbanning system here is truly kafkian!


> Contact admins and perhaps ask them what rule exactly you contravened with this one comment

Being genuinely bad at posting would be one.


Presumably you don't have show dead turned on, here is their only post (just below here):

Why is this, when forces working with the German government itself can apparently swoop in unannounced? How is there any advantage to living in Germany? I'm genuinely interested in understanding.


I read the post. It's a bad post, and it could be a precursor to a toxic account. It's got the tone of a bad attempt at trolling. (It's at least clear the poster is either a bad troll or can't apply a modicum of critical thinking of their own.) HN has other information it can take into account when hell-banning somebody, like IP addresses, too. Go ahead and try making new accounts and see if you get hell-banned. Set them up from cafes and the like if you're worried about it being correlated with your IP address (and thereby treated as less likely to be a bad account). I've done this quite a few times recently and those accounts making one or two comments have never gotten hell-banned.


Couldn't disagree more.


Of course not, I wouldn't have replied in the first place if I agreed with you.




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