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yepyoukno
Why worry?

The posts are automatically “auto-dead” actually, which means flagged so many times only people who “enable dead” can see them.

There are a lot of users like this. Many never realize they are “auto-dead” and go on posting like this on and on.

Sometimes it’s sad and undeserved (some users have a “negative tone” others don’t like), and other times obvious!

So to answer your question, this is one level of “shadow ban”. The next level hides all posts and they cannot be read at all!

Now ask me how I know that!

Ps, I like to disagree!

johnnyApplePRNG
I was mostly concerned when I saw he had been posting about knives as well.

And I've just never seen any commenter with 3+ pages of dead comments that's still allowed/able to comment?

I figured if they were actually shadow banned I wouldn't be seeing their comments at all? (Even though I have show-dead on ... one would assume there would be thousands or millions of shadowbanned bots on the prowl by now).

anenefan
Probably shadow banned, I would say for being too gruff and blunt a lot of the time with the rest falling into the snarky territory. I still read their comments in a topic I'm viewing ... from what I read, I'm not concerned for their mental health than many other HN contributors, I'd guess most of their days are very stressful and they would not be the first person to purposely take their daily frustrations out on some forum they frequent.
johnnyApplePRNG
I hope so!

I was just really concerned to see literally every single comment they've made across 3 pages deep have been flagged.

I didn't actually read any of them.

And the one submission he did get some traction on was about some kind of knives?

I mean whatever ... what can I do ... I know ... I just thought somebody should say something.

Maybe he'll see this someday?

If you do bud, I hope you're doing alright, even though I've never met ya!

fuzzfactor
Looks like it could be a bot that's taken control of a long-standing username which might have been virtually abandoned for some time.

Now running amok.