I offer these as proof that I was a good contributor to Hacker News-- abrasive and controversial I have no opinion on the actual person (I did not click throug

I offer these as proof that I was a good contributor to Hacker News-- abrasive and controversial I have no opinion on the actual person (I did not click through the comments) but I just want to point out that I personally don't rate someone who is abrasive as a good contributor, and there are a lot of flavours of "controversial" that I have little time for, too. I also can't figure whether the OP is primarily complaining about being "banned" or by the fact that this is not made clear to the user. I do have some sympathy for the latter, if that is the case. It's pretty grim to be allowed to post but have everything silently sent to /dev/null.