uzoodoo

Another shadowbanned user here. Used to be an occasional poster, made posts if I had something meaningful to add.

At some point I noticed that I never got replies, but didn't think much of it, continued posting. Then, one day I looked at my profile while I was logged out, and surprise - the the posts for the last few months are no longer there.

Like OP, I went through a few accounts. They worked for a bit, and then responses dropped off. Eventually, I realized that apparently, my new apartment's IP is toxic.

Not sure who a shadow ban is supposed to punish since any spam bot can check just as trivially of they're banned. On the other hand, legitimate users have no idea keep wasting their time submitting their comments to /dev/null.

By now I have given up on trying to comment on HN. I can use my time on better things.

Ironic that a the site like HN can't get a proper quoting markup, can't fix the pre-block scroll, took forever to add support for mobile and comment collapsing, and used blanket IP bans...

That's a really strange phone you're describing. Did it have a single hole on the dial? Where are you from?

I too used rotary phones - I'm 28 (if it makes a difference) and I grew up in a former Soviet republic. The phone had a dial with 10 holes in it: 1-9 followed by 0 (just like on a modern phone keypad, by the way). You stick your finger in a hole over the digit and rotate clockwise until the the stop. Then, take the finger out and wait for it to rotate back to the original position. Then you dial the next digit.

You have to be naive to give a service access to a trove of your private data and expect them to just leave it there...

That's a good question! Has anyone ever met a male Russian programmer? I don't think I've ever heard of one! /s