> Remember, you made this comment on server that was provided to you for free without the need of ad support.
HN has ads, just sneaky ones that blend in with user-submitted links on the front page ($YCStartup is Hiring, Launch HNs. But on the positive side, they don't seem to rely on tracking to target any narrower audience than the whole HN userbase).
> Since you passive-aggressively banned my account by not actually telling me about it
On the contrary, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10174306. I warned you several times before that and asked you more than once to put an email address in your account so we could contact you about this.
We bent over backwards not to ban you because we don't want to be accused of banning users for political reasons—which of course we don't, but it's an accusation people like to make. Unfortunately, you don't seem to want to use HN in good faith, so you're banned until that clearly changes.
>I was wondering why this post had so many comments. Then I found out it was posted on proggit/HN. The discussions there were hardly interesting, however.
For the curious (was a bit annoying to find since gplus is down now and all links redirect to a different subdomain):
> Now I have to be careful because Dang gave me a chewing for talking about the podcast too much.
Less than 24 hours ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37424978 "Can you please stop using HN to promote your podcast? You're doing it way too much and users are complaining."
> I don't think this is the "gotcha" you think it is.
Sorry it came across as a "gotcha"; just meant as a potentially-relevant HN post from a few months ago in the spirit of sharing and curiosity.
But digging a bit further, I did find a few HN comments from two years ago that may be worth considering; pizza234's "I personally discourage people from using this software."[1] and proto_lambda's "If this is the kind of thing that's considered acceptable by the developer, I'd rather keep their products far away from my machines."[2]
if it makes you feel any better, I am the author of the website and I posted the same exact link 9 hours before OP and it got 3 upvotes [0] .
then I woke up to a lot of GitHub stars on the repository and turns out this blew up.
HN works in mysterious ways.
> 0 acknowledgement from OP
I have no idea, that seems like a newly created account to me. if you have any queries or issues/feedback, you can always raise it on git or contact me.
I took this only as a learning experience and in no way to promote or market something :)
> that I recently just turned off JavaScript completely for their site.
I started laughing so hard at this comment. It's so funny to me that someone would go to such great lengths to get the article unmolested. Thought I'd share my two-cents. I love reading HN sometimes. I will try this technique out, you can bet your bottom dollar.
Indeed. It was briefly let out of jail because of a mistake I made: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8055336.
It's reassuring to see people complaining about stuff that the software normally penalizes. A natural experiment!
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