[dang]

Personal attacks will get your account banned here, so please don't do this again. Instead, please (re-)read the site rules, and post civilly and substantively, or not at all:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html

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[coldshower]

Dang, I'm interested to know why you shadowban some accounts (obviously without warning, or else it wouldn't be a shadownban) and yet give others advance warning in a very public way.

Is there a criteria or policy you follow?

[dang]

For example, when people have been serially spamming HN for years and creating dozens of accounts to do it with, we ban them outright.

[coldshower]

Sounds fair enough.