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by dang 2226 days ago
We banned you after many years of you promoting your product aggressively on HN, using shady tactics such as voting rings and links to things that looked unrelated but were in fact stealthy ways of promoting the exact same thing over and over.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22756777

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17000657

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8489651

Users complained frequently about you spamming HN over all these years—there are many more comments like these:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22730863

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21383815

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22499177

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16893429

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16677493

, but we gave you the benefit of the doubt and cut you slack until finally enough was enough. We've banned countless users for far less.

We moderate HN less when YC or YC startups are involved (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...), but I don't see how that relates to this.