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I agree 100% that you should receive a notification that your account is blackholed. After reading this and still being new to HN I am a tad terrified now that I might one day be blackholed and not even realize it.


The whole point of a hellban is that the person receiving it doesn't know. Telling a troll they're banned just feeds into their behavior; they'll do whatever's necessary to circumvent the ban just to fight the site administrator and other users. A hellban subtly encourages the troll to leave voluntarily by ensuring they're ignored.

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2011/06/suspension-ban-or-h...




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