[threecreepio]

These kinds of things definitely need to be overseen/'banned' somehow, but it's a bit easy to wind up catching too many real users in the net, that I'd rather have a few bad eggs around personally.

I feel plenty worse seeing users like http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=EllieAsksWhy , with all their comments silently marked as 'dead' and made invisible without them having any idea what's going on, than I do having to ignore a few spammers.

(edit: note, you have to mark "showdead" as "yes" in your profile to see what i'm talking about)