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We've asked you numerous times not to post like this, so we've banned the account. We're happy to unban accounts if you email us at hn@ycombinator.com and we be

• AndrewOMartin 10y ago
  Yeah, and anyway, the actual Abraham Lincoln quote is "I haven't said half the shit attributed to me on the internet".
• interfixus 10y ago
  The andrewclunn character has some spiky opinions and a sometimes edgy tone, but certainly doesn't appear to sabotage any discussions here, give or take the odd misplaced facetious comment. More than once, he has initiated long perfectly readable subthreads, meaning his input has got someone thinking. So here's my one worthless vote to reinstate him ASAP.
  • dang 10y ago
    It's pretty easy for someone to get unbanned if really they want to use the site as intended. Failing that, the vouching system gives banned users' good comments a fair shot at being restored, so even the worst case isn't that bad.
    • wapz 10y ago
      Can you tell me what the vouching system is? Is that another word for giving upvotes to comments?
      • DanBC 10y ago
        In your options there's one called "showdead". That allows you to see any comments that have been killed by the HN software or by user flags. If you then click the timestamp of a dead comment you'll see a [vouch] link. If enough people click that it'll change the post from dead to live. Mods get to see vouches, and people who get enough vouches I think get converted from banned to unbanned. I think there's a karma threshold four vouching, but I don't know what that is.
• andrewclunn 10y ago
  I don't actually appear to be banned, or perhaps this is a passive thing where nobody else can see the comments I post. EDIT - Honestly, if my posting is now hidden by default, but I'm still able to save items to a favorites list, I'm fine with it. The standards seem somewhat subjective in ways that apparently don't mesh with my approach to commenting or giving feedback, so if that's the case, so be it.