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Comment by doktrin | Hacker News Reader

and so it goes, as with all things, gwern becomes irrelevant, out of touch, and unimportant

edit : don't think the 0.001 ms downvotes were not noticed, hacker news

This comment violates the guidelines in like, a handful of ways. Could you please read them and not post like this again?

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

Why did you shadow ban me?

Probably a combination of the personal attack in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16304324 and evidence that you've been abusing HN with other accounts. We tend to use shadowbanning in that case because it's too tiring to engage with serial trolls. When the account has been around longer we tend to post openly that they're being banned and why.

Since you've posted mostly good comments since then, we'll unban you. But would you please use the site as intended—for intellectual curiosity and thoughtful conversation—and follow the rules at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html from now on?

I’ve always used it for sincere intellectual curiosity and thoughtful conversation. My posts across all my accounts are more representative of that more than bad faith trolling. You can trace through it yourself.

Saying Bryan Cantrell has a massive ego isn’t such a massive or unfounded personal attack if I back it up with well-known evidence. He has a known and decorated reputation in the hacker community for having a massive ego. I mean, really?

Having a contradictory or aggressive opinion doesn’t make you a troll if you’re willing to continuously engage in the discussion in good faith. Trolls minimally engage and don’t add. I put effort in my engagement and I try to add to the discussion.

My treatment on hacker news has been unfair and I think your handling has been heavy-handed to the point of censorship. That being said, thank you for de-shadowbanning me. It shows you care.

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