> Throwaway accounts are ok for sensitive information, but please don't create accounts routinely. HN is a community—users should have an identity that others c

> Throwaway accounts are ok for sensitive information, but please don't create accounts routinely. HN is a community—users should have an identity that others can relate to. - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html You broke the rules, of course you were banned. If you so choose, you can make some accounts that you reuse, but making throwaway accounts routinely is not conducive to good discussion as the practice normalizes driveby commenter's who'll make a new account, spam a thread, then leave.