> I've been here over 10 years and I don't really recall seeing anything other than blatant spam or crap removed in that time. Well, besides the usual "who dec

> I've been here over 10 years and I don't really recall seeing anything other than blatant spam or crap removed in that time. Well, besides the usual "who decides what's 'blatant spam or crap'?" response to the "it's only bad stuff that gets censored", I'd suggest you haven't really been paying attention, then. Take a look at dang's comment history[1] and you'll see a lot of warnings before ban but also plenty of bans and references to previous bans, usually for substantive, not spam, reasons. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=dang https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=dang