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by traviscj 3489 days ago
Fraud detection and compliance systems have a false positive rate, unfortunately. And a company confirming something like that would be tantamount to telling how to avoid the filter, which also raises their false negative rate, which is not in the company's interest, whether the party in question is a fraudster using it for their own interest or a non-fraudster that spills the beans on HN.

But yeah, it sucks that their system can't learn to give you an exception after it has been reviewed once or twice.