[someone_here]

cleverjake: You're being censored. All your comments are dead on arrival.

[wnoise]

It'd be really nice if karma could be earned on comments from autokilled users, and eventually undo that. The permaban seems excessive in maybe about half the users I see.

[rorymarinich]

That's because either Paul or one of the mods hellbanned him. When you're banned on Hacker News, you don't get told, because that would make you get a new account and start posting without having learnt your lesson. So instead they just auto-kill your comments to prevent other people from seeing what you're doing. (Sometimes they're polite and email you to let you know you've been banned, which is nice of them. Other times they just let you keep posting away to nobody.)

[Dylan16807]

Something that took me a long time to find out about was going into settings and turning on show dead. Surprising what you can find.

[brianpan]

Oh my! Hacker News is littered with dead, exposed bodies!

I never knew what any of the setting were.

Well, what do you know. Those are documented in the FAQ. You'd think that the explanations would be near where you use them!

[drivebyacct2]

And from the looks of it, for submitting a link to a YouTube video.

[Estragon]

This is a really disturbing characteristic of Hacker News moderation. The people it happens to must feel like Bruce Willis in The Sixth Sense, when they realize it. Why not let them know??

[nailer]

What was the video?