Isn't telling people that they're hellbanned against the whole point of hellbanning?

HN uses the tool indiscriminately without any form of communication, on the assumption that everyone who would dare violate a HN conduct rule simply can not be reasoned with.

There are some people who really can't be reasoned with, but it's not everyone.

Not if that particular instance of hellbanning was unjustified.

That said, coherentpony may just be against hellbanning as a whole. I find it a tasteless tool myself.