<story><title>How I Fell in Love with a Schizophrenic</title><url>http://asserttrue.blogspot.com/2013/01/how-i-fell-in-love-with-schizophrenic.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>steveklabnik</author><text>There is a person with schizophrenia who posts to HN, who is shadowbanned due to the comments they leave, which are nonsensical due to their illness. Turn &apos;showdead&apos; on in your profile, then hit &lt;a href=&quot;http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=losethos&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=losethos&lt;/a&gt; and now &lt;a href=&quot;http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=SparrowOS&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=SparrowOS&lt;/a&gt; .&lt;p&gt;They&apos;ve been writing their own operating system in assembly for the last few years: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.losethos.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.losethos.com/&lt;/a&gt; and now &lt;a href=&quot;http://sparrowos.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://sparrowos.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;For more: &lt;a href=&quot;http://qaa.ath.cx/LoseThos.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://qaa.ath.cx/LoseThos.html&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Xcelerate</author><text>Hmmph.  I noticed the (dead) comments by SparrowOS a few days ago and was very curious about them.  They didn&apos;t look like any sort of spam or advertising, because there were bouts of normal conversation amidst them.&lt;p&gt;I posted a &quot;Ask HN&quot; question inquiring about this user and his comments, and my post was marked &quot;dead&quot; within a minute.  Only thing I&apos;ve ever had marked dead on here (that I&apos;m aware of at least).&lt;p&gt;Thank you for your explanation; I would have never guessed it was something like schizophrenia.</text></comment>
<story><title>How I Fell in Love with a Schizophrenic</title><url>http://asserttrue.blogspot.com/2013/01/how-i-fell-in-love-with-schizophrenic.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>steveklabnik</author><text>There is a person with schizophrenia who posts to HN, who is shadowbanned due to the comments they leave, which are nonsensical due to their illness. Turn &apos;showdead&apos; on in your profile, then hit &lt;a href=&quot;http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=losethos&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=losethos&lt;/a&gt; and now &lt;a href=&quot;http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=SparrowOS&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=SparrowOS&lt;/a&gt; .&lt;p&gt;They&apos;ve been writing their own operating system in assembly for the last few years: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.losethos.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.losethos.com/&lt;/a&gt; and now &lt;a href=&quot;http://sparrowos.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://sparrowos.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;For more: &lt;a href=&quot;http://qaa.ath.cx/LoseThos.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://qaa.ath.cx/LoseThos.html&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>krakensden</author><text>I kind of wish that he&apos;d be unbanned. No one owes him their attention, but it seems awful to hide him in the closet.</text></comment>