[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.