I addressed this here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46378818, albeit more in the context of political stories—but I think the same point applies here too.

If you wouldn't mind reading that and letting me know if you still have a question that isn't answered there, I'd be interested in hearing what it is.

Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46700527.

We've banned this account for repeatedly and egregiously posting personal attacks. You can't post things like this to HN:

You’re a dishonest individual

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46676214

you don’t actually give a shit about the rules [...] you’re just lying and misrepresenting things

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46675325

Nobody else wants you here either. So just leave and take your weird fucking content policing nonsense with you and let adults have a conversation in peace. Don’t you have some kids skateboarding on the sidewalk to yell at instead?

And yet you felt the need to dress up your cowardice as some kind of moral argument. You’re exactly the kind of person I thought you were from the start it turns out. Congratulations.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46666023

That’s an incredibly gross personality trait.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46656285

Just straight up making shit up here. WTF are you talking about?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46485800

This is such nonsense and everyone who’s a web developer knows you’re not being honest

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46462462

You are the one who replies here looking for a response despite knowing exactly how it was going to go. Don’t be upset when you put yourself in that situation intentionally and it doesn’t go the way you want it to and for no other reason than to misrepresent the data to suit your favourite company yet again. Please just do both of us a favour and don’t reply

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46377969

I think you’re odd and I’m not trying to be impolite but you’re going to have to accept the fact that people find your hobby weird.

You have once again however just done the exact same thing I accused you of where you are responding to an argument that nobody actually made and then pretending you’re somehow victorious which again is odd behaviour.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46377025

The above cases are just a small sample of how badly you've been doing this. It is a serious abuse of this site, as anyone who has read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html knows.

I hesitated before banning, because you've also attacked the mods a lot and we don't ban people for criticizing us. However, attacking the mods doesn't make it ok for you to attack others, and I believe that's something the bulk of this community can both understand and agree with.

There's no aspect of this that we haven't publicly explained over and over again. Here's one example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46378818. Here are countless others: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

If you read some of those explanations and still have a question that isn't answered there, I'd be happy to take a crack at it. What you shouldn't do is take commenters' claims about it un-skeptically, because sometimes (as in this case) they are false.

That's false and seriously misleading. Since you've done this repeatedly, even abusing your account profile to do it ("This is because I disagreed with dang. Damg has confirmed this by email."), I've banned the account.

It's fine to disagree with how we run HN. Plenty of users do. In fact, HN users love disagreeing with us and we take it as a sign of their attachment to this place. Complaining about / objecting to mod decisions and admin practices is part of the life of the forum.

How do we respond? By patiently answering questions, explaining how the site works, listening to objections, and addressing them as best we can—over and over and over. Anyone who wants to can verify this. We've done it over 200,000 times, on the site and by email. (I just checked.)

What's not fine is to misleadingly misrepresent what we've told you to other users, thereby poisoning the community. That's seriously over the line and is a reason for banning someone if they do it repeatedly as part of a pattern. (Fortunately, this is rare.) Readers have a right to know how HN is actually administered, and admins have a right not to have their words distorted.

When I explained to you why we removed flagging privileges from your account, the reason was no different than what I've publicly stated in countless comments, e.g.:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46378818 (Dec 2025)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43051024 (Feb 2025)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46592822 (Jan 2026)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46521819 (Jan 2026)

You can find 2,700 other past comments I've made about flagging at https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que.... In not one of those, nor in any email I've ever sent, will you find any reference to us disabling flags because someone "flagged things [dang] agreed with".