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by CoastalCoder 1274 days ago
Could someone explain why the reply from @calimac was killed?

I'm guessing it has something to do with the snowshoe-spamming reference, but I'm totally in the dark.
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probably_wrong 1274 days ago
The user is probably blacklisted due to bad past behavior. You can vouch for individual comments, though.
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rootusrootus 1274 days ago
Banned by sctb on Oct 16, 2016 for political ranting.
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CoastalCoder 1274 days ago
Wouldn't being banned prevent them from posting?

Or does it just insta-kill all their posts?

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rootusrootus 1274 days ago
It just marks all of their posts dead. If you have showdead:on set then you can see them, and choose to vouch for individual posts if they add value to the conversation.
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