[aboutruby]

> We're pretty meticulous about responding to everyone who contacts us with such concerns, so I'm wondering what could have been going on there.

I'm talking about past experience with previous accounts.

> Please don't impute astroturfing or shillage. That degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about it, email us and we'll look at the data.

Ok, never saw this rule actually, thanks.

> Finally, attacking the person you're replying to like that by casting groundless aspersions on their posting history is a violation of HN's civility rule.

Yes, I never look at people's post history, not sure why I did. I also usually never reply to other people's comments and should be more strict about that.

[dang]

It's possible your emails went to spam and we missed it. That's not so likely though, especially since you say there were repeated cases. We look through the spam bin and try to fish out all the HN-related emails.

More likely, if you emailed us repeatedly and didn't get a response, is that your previous accounts were involved in some form of abuse and we didn't believe that the emails were in good faith. Either that or it was 5+ years ago, when pg was running HN and didn't have time to respond to emails like we do.

[aboutruby]

It was a while ago, I don’t create new accounts for ban-escaping but for privacy reasons.