Hacker News Reader

Comment by ANTSANTS | Hacker News Reader

cat-v originally created by Uriel.

https://web.archive.org/web/20140208043848/http://cat-v.org/...

  Thanks
    Uriel for creating and building the site.

The page linked is part of a community wiki hosted on the site; while it has accumulated changes since then, I'm pretty sure the original "considered harmful" list was his creation.

EDIT: khm, you've apparently been hellbanned, for some reason.

View on HN

To piggyback: thanks for the context khm and sorry for giving you server maintenance issues on a Saturday morning...I've come across cat-v entries in random Google searches (today I was looking for UNIX books) and I figured it was a site that had been used to getting Slashdotted.

I don't know what "hellbanned" means, but I'm unsurprised I got banned for posting about malloc() in a web programming forum.

You definitely weren't banned for posting about malloc. Posts about malloc are good! But yes, the account was banned, and I just looked through the log and I can't figure out why. The IP was banned as well, which suggests to me that your account might have gotten caught by a spam filter that had previously tagged that IP. I'm sorry. We've unbanned the account, obviously.

(If it was a spam filter, I have an idea about how to fix the problem which I haven't yet had time to get to.)

Could it be the link to the, um, somewhat incendiary blog?

Definitely not. It has been posted 88 times here in 6 years.

thanks for your intervention.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com