[sdegutis]

Man it's times like this that I wish the mods didn't turn my votes into shadow-votes (a la shadow-ban) and that my votes actually worked.

[q3k]

Indeed, 5 out of 6 top-level comments currently being attempts at cracking jokes. What a graveyard of a comment section.

[sdegutis]

It's not just joke. It's the fact that it way too closely resembled the writing style of big-city newspaper articles, trying to "subtly" play on double-meaning words. It's just so awful.

[biafra]

How do you know?

[sdegutis]

They never ever adjust the position or color of any comment. They used to, until the day the mods labeled my account a "troll" account a few years ago. Now my posting is rate-limited, and my votes do nothing. Even after changing my behavior on HN, they refused to reverse their decision.

Let that be a warning to everyone here, never to post comments or links the HN mods do not approve of. Their vengeance is moderate and permanent.

[zeveb]

I worry that this will happen (or has happened) to me: I regularly use vouch to vouch for comments which I believe are unfairly flagged. Does that offend the moderators? I have no idea.

[jhlgkhkhil]

Yes is does. If you vouch for comments that get flagkilled your flagging/vouching rights get automatically removed quite quickly.

[jhlgkhkhil]

Same happened to me on another account. Long standing account with karma over 1000. One little spat and the account got rate limited and its votes did nothing - its flagging rights remained though for some weird reason... Since then I've been on throwaways.

[brudgers]

Stating your case using the contact link is always an option.

[sdegutis]

Yep done that. That's when they basically said nope too bad so sad.

[Arizhel]

Time to create a new account.

[sdegutis]

Meh. I'd rather just continue scaling back my time spent here. It's becoming a more and more worthless site every day.