[ricktdotorg]

or pay them 6 bucks a month for a G Suite account instead of free gmail so you actually have the ability to call a 24/7 customer service phone number and yell and scream and get someone to find out why they removed access to your lifeblood account, and have access restored.

it constantly amazes me that so many HN people put their ENTIRE LIVES/BUSINESSES in a free account that [has been proven, countless times] can be taken away from them at any time.

i mean what do folks expect for free?

google is an asshole company, sure. but so many HN'ers expect to be treated like "customers" with associated "customer rights" when in actual fact, they are a free user, a total nobody.

pay a company a small bit of money, and hey, whaddyaknow, you can suddenly call them up and talk to someone, figure out why they removed access to your account, and get it sorted out.

[awinter-py]

is the 'banned forever for no reason' situation different for paid accts?

[sudoit]

Doubt it