[elsjaako]

The ad companies simply don't want ABP to come along and tell them stuff they don't want to hear. They also don't want ABP knowing what they are talking about and planning to do. So they used a system to prevent ABP changing their experience.

Seems fair enough, nothing hypocritical there.

[bainsfather]

Selling someone a ticket and listing them as a participant, then later banning them without an explanation, is pretty bad behaviour, no?

[marcosdumay]

Bad behavior, yes. But nothing much different from usual. In fact, much less threatening than their usual behavior.

[elsjaako]

I was going for irony, I hope it came across.

[bainsfather]

Ah, that was way too subtle for me - the number of hn posters who argue weird (imo) positions means that I need a sarcasm tag to know someone's not serious.