to @asanagi who's shadowbanned: [this comment of yours](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9428765 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9428765) was flagged,

to @asanagi who's shadowbanned: [this comment of yours](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9428765 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9428765) was flagged, I suppose by users, and you've been out ever since. You may want to appeal to hn@ycombinator.com, your comment wasn't egregious IMO, but the snark made it look trollish. Looking at your comment history, I see other comments that would probably have gotten you (shadow)banned as well. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9850480 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9850480 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9766989 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9766989 You may want to tone down the aggressiveness in some of your posts. Edit: addressing your concern about gender, since I feel to some extent sympathetic to what you feel, but not to your reactions. People who systematically graft a men (agressors) vs women (victims) on topics like domestic violence or prostitution do grind my gears, since it's only part of the narrative and they tend to be blind to the rest of it. That being said we've been through a heavily misogynistic period (see the women's right movement in the 20th century or this story about raganwald's mother: http://braythwayt.com/posterous/2012/03/29/a-womans-story.html http://braythwayt.com/posterous/2012/03/29/a-womans-story.ht...), and, due to networks effects, it requires sustained action to correct (see http://ncase.me/polygons/ http://ncase.me/polygons/), removing the old biases is not enough. Still, invoking imaginary hard core feminists in that thread about positive discrimination towards women in academia was a bad idea. Without more context, I would have flagged it if I had seen it back then.