We've killed all the accounts that had little/no prior activity on HN other than upvoting/boost-commenting this post, or the similar one last year. The comment

We've killed all the accounts that had little/no prior activity on HN other than upvoting/boost-commenting this post, or the similar one last year. The comment complaining about the tiered pricing is particularly bad. Some people really underestimate how obvious and bad this looks to the rest of the community. The thing is that it's completely unnecessary. We want to help people get exposure for good projects via Show HN, and all anyone needs to do is email us and we can help them get their project and post into good shape.