Similar, when I went a bit overboard feeding a troll I got a calmly worded request to not do it again and to refresh on the guidelines -- which I did. It seemed

Similar, when I went a bit overboard feeding a troll I got a calmly worded request to not do it again and to refresh on the guidelines -- which I did. It seemed like a fair request. I've tried to keep it in mind since too. I also set my delay setting to 10 minutes so that I can self-mod anything that reads back a bit too snarky. That's handy. Something else was swapping out HN replies by email to HN replies by RSS. Can't get caught up in a flamewar if I only check once a day :) The moderation style here (light handed on first infraction, and ideally paid for the work) will be kept in mind if I'm ever running a community of some sort.