[dredmorbius]

I'd been informed of this after being caught up in the block myself yesterday, as noted in another Fediverse thread that's looking for cases of abuse in HN's moderation:

<https://toot.cat/@dredmorbius/111161109931108606>

I frequently browse HN unauthenticated, both from a tablet I'm desperately trying to keep from becoming a timesuck itself (somewhat unsuccessfully), and when doing quick checks and searched on HN (something I do a lot) from a private/incognito browser session.

It's also useful to verify issues, such as I had with a submission of mine yesterday which was itself autokilled based on the domain. I'd posted an archive of the original URL from a now-dead site, using the archived version which includes the comments (Internet Archive's Wayback Machine does not, for some reason): <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37732186>

Dang quickly undid the kill, but I couldn't actually validate it myself given the botnet mitigations.

(And the post has done much better than I'd expected.)

I'd forgotten the self-service IP unbanning option, though putting that outside HN's protected IP space (or at least in a different one) might be helpful.