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Apparently, this is the comment that got my old account banned: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4342935 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4342935. I'm n
by cm2012 12y ago
Apparently, this is the comment that got my old account banned: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4342935 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4342935. I'm not sure though, it's just the last one on the profile before they go dead.
I did like my old account.
- Kiro 12y agoI very much doubt that was the comment that got you banned.
- DanBC 12y agoPure guesswork: combinations of the several ask HNs and the word jewelery triggered the spam filter. Did you email hn to ask why you were banned?
- lotharbot 12y agoI was completely confused by why you were hellbanned. Then I stopped looking at comments and looked at your submissions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4335811 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4335811 I'm guessing that got caught in the spam filter for use of the words "jewelry" and some of the other keywords in the Amazon link. This is one of the unfortunate side effects of running a startup that happens to be in a field that generates a lot of (affiliate) spam.
- cm2012 12y agoThanks - that's probably it!
- dang 12y agoPlease email hn@ycombinator.com.
- throwit99 12y agoI thought mistakes never happen over there! Hellbanning people, and then asking them to email you later, is still a crappy way to act. It's not a hard problem. Just raise the threshold for hellbanning. Use it sparingly.