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so this guy gets to break tos for years yet you ban me after one infraction.

• dang 4y ago
  More than one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17823155 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17823155 (Aug 2018) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17815070 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17815070 (Aug 2018) You also deleted some comments around then, which presumably were even worse. The main difference between your account and the GP, though, is that you were breaking the site guidelines within a day or two of creating your account. The threshold for banning is lower in that case, since such accounts are far more likely to be trolls (and often serial trolls). That, plus spam, are the cases when we use shadowbanning. The GP account, by contrast, has been around for over a decade. In such cases, yes, we prefer to give warnings before banning. I think most users would consider that reasonable. The same deal applies to you as to other banned accounts though: if you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future. They're here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.