You can create new account without email or any other verification, so it's not really that big deal if your account was completely banned (worst case you will lose your favorites and upvotes history).
You will just lose downvoting feature until you reach again 500 karma I think, which I don't care about anyway, personally I'd find site better, if there was no downvote feature at all for everyone and all comments were visible and distinguished only by number of upvotes.
Btw I agree there should be very clear information about comment/post time limits, because it feels they are not applied equally to everyone and you can't really respond even to people responding to you. Then it seems like you can't provide arguments, while the reality is you are time limited while other people keep discussing about what you said. It would be better if these time limits didn't apply at least in your own reply thread where you are parent, only in other parents so you can't spam others. But honestly I don't have problem with time limits if they were transparently communicated.
I had to create new account since my account was brigaded or destroyed by bots, no matter what I posted pretty much everything receiving (insta)downvotes (sometimes within seconds), no such problems with new account (so much for this being conspiracy in my head).
I have an idea for a social network (for a lack of an adequate word), one of the rules would be you can't downvote without a comment and most moderation happens at the edge (clients apply moderation by user controlled settings) but harmful and illegal content can also be moderated through 51% consent of participants electing/certifying censorship authority in the authority domain.
With HN though, i wonder how much is manual vs algorithmic reaction to downvotes/flagging. Either way shadow modding goes against honest and valuable discord.
> You will just lose downvoting feature until you reach again 500 karma I think, which I don't care about anyway, personally I'd find site better, if there was no downvote feature at all for everyone and all comments were visible and distinguished only by number of upvotes.
This.
That stupid color-/intensity-fading is one of a kind. Often these are just comments that brush against the grain / groupthink, but nevertheless are at least worthy of skim-reading, if not more!
(Or flag it as offensive to or whatever, but keep it readable!)
You will just lose downvoting feature until you reach again 500 karma I think, which I don't care about anyway, personally I'd find site better, if there was no downvote feature at all for everyone and all comments were visible and distinguished only by number of upvotes.
Btw I agree there should be very clear information about comment/post time limits, because it feels they are not applied equally to everyone and you can't really respond even to people responding to you. Then it seems like you can't provide arguments, while the reality is you are time limited while other people keep discussing about what you said. It would be better if these time limits didn't apply at least in your own reply thread where you are parent, only in other parents so you can't spam others. But honestly I don't have problem with time limits if they were transparently communicated.
I had to create new account since my account was brigaded or destroyed by bots, no matter what I posted pretty much everything receiving (insta)downvotes (sometimes within seconds), no such problems with new account (so much for this being conspiracy in my head).