[claydavisss]

600 have already been delivered. Covid caused a disruption in final certification, that's it. The F35 isn't being cancelled, although I predict most comments here will devolve into a debate of the plane's merits. The US and many allies are committed, the US will eventually own thousands.

[chrisseaton]

If you didn't know, you've been hell-banned (silently hidden from the HN that almost everyone else sees) for two years. That's why you get so few replies to your comments.

[ahupp]

I see their comments like normal, is there something that controls this?

[mlyle]

His stuff starts off "dead" and has to be "vouched" by someone with karma to be expanded/seen by default. Look at his post history.

[chrisseaton]

If someone like me chooses to reply they become visible. Otherwise they're talking into the void.

[Der_Einzige]

This kind of policy is so hostile to it's users that I cannot believe that people like HN moderation patterns.

Sometimes I consider writing a bot to automatically upvote ALL downvoted comments because maybe half of downvoted comments are incorrectly downvoted by people who got emotionally upset rather than downvoting because the content is of low quality.

Hopefully, I could also write a system to automatically vouch for flagged comments that are from hell banned accounts. Truly a terrible system and I'd leave this place tomorrow if there was any community with as much good content as HN to replace HN with (and no, slashdot does not count)

[pvg]

The user is not really 'shadow banned' since they've had their warnings, e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18500226

Deciding to ignore them is 'forum hostile'