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Personal attacks will get your account banned here, so please don't do this again. Instead, please (re-)read the site rules, and post civilly and substantively, or not at all:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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Dang, I'm interested to know why you shadowban some accounts (obviously without warning, or else it wouldn't be a shadownban) and yet give others advance warning in a very public way.

Is there a criteria or policy you follow?

For example, when people have been serially spamming HN for years and creating dozens of accounts to do it with, we ban them outright.

Sounds fair enough.

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