On: An Update on Hacker News

[cm2012]

Apparently, this is the comment that got my old account banned: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4342935. I'm not sure though, it's just the last one on the profile before they go dead.

I did like my old account.

[lotharbot → cm2012]

I was completely confused by why you were hellbanned. Then I stopped looking at comments and looked at your submissions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4335811

I'm guessing that got caught in the spam filter for use of the words "jewelry" and some of the other keywords in the Amazon link. This is one of the unfortunate side effects of running a startup that happens to be in a field that generates a lot of (affiliate) spam.

[cm2012 → lotharbot]

Thanks - that's probably it!

[DanBC → cm2012]

Pure guesswork: combinations of the several ask HNs and the word jewelery triggered the spam filter.

Did you email hn to ask why you were banned?

[dang → cm2012]

Please email hn@ycombinator.com.

[throwit99 → dang]

I thought mistakes never happen over there!

Hellbanning people, and then asking them to email you later, is still a crappy way to act.

It's not a hard problem. Just raise the threshold for hellbanning. Use it sparingly.

[Kiro → cm2012]

I very much doubt that was the comment that got you banned.