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by reitzensteinm 2454 days ago
That's fair enough. I knew it was totally against the site guidelines but I couldn't help myself.

Honestly, I think you and the other mods could be quicker with the ban hammer even if that means I'm on the chopping block for what I did here.

Eg the above account posted this nine days ago, and that was after a previous warning:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20995004

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I agree. The trouble is that we don't see everything that gets posted here; there's too much. So sometimes when there's a repeated pattern of abuse, it takes longer than we would like to notice it. Users can help by flagging comments (see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html for how) and by emailing hn@ycombinator.com about egregious cases.
Ah, I specifically picked a comment that had been killed by repeated flagging. I assumed that there'd be a human reviewing by that stage.

I've been under the impression for a while that it takes quite a bit more to be banned these days than five years ago, but that might just be nostalgia.

Anyway, I know you're volunteers and it's not really appropriate for me to be complaining about the dress code after fighting in your bar. I'm sorry for causing trouble.

Well, we're not volunteers except in the sense that we volunteer to be paid to do this :)

I appreciate the decency of your response.