[harry8]

Your shop, your rules, obviously. I think that's a shame fwiw and write now against any bans based on a cursory read of their last 3 months of comments or so. As I also did against the disappearing of the comment itself.

You may know better for many reasons. I note our concerns and goals are not necessarily aligned. YMMV.

[dang]

When someone has a long history of abusing HN, the standards are different. Normally I'd just post a warning in cases like this. Actually, even if this were the first time this particular account had posted abusively, I'd have used a warning rather than a ban. But there are enough abusive comments in this account's history also, and this comment was a particularly clear case of reverting to a long-established pattern.