[tptacek]

There is zero chance yelling at or about me on HN is going to get you hellbanned. There's a bigger chance I'll get hellbanned.

This is one of the dumber meta-threads HN has had. Not so much your comment in particular as the whole thing.

[tshtf]

You won't be shitbanned, tptacek. Someone with 100 karma who makes a contrary post for a YC company will.

[blasdel]

A couple years ago a prominent user with ~9000 karma was hellbanned for getting picked on by Zed Shaw, and pg went as far as adding new code to news.arc afterward so he wouldn't show up on the "leaders" list anymore (he was unbanned a month ago).

You'd be surprised, it doesn't take much to get pg trigger-happy. He's threatened me with banning a few times myself!