I'm glad your comment got vouch-rescued, mtgx, so that I can tell you that you have been shadow-banned, and almost all of your comments, except those that are rescued by vouching, are invisible to almost all HN readers (except those of us who have the "showdead" setting turned on). It looks like the shadowban began about 90 days ago, after you left a very mildly disparaging comment related to John Carmack. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20582828

You were banned, but many others who say much more offensive things never get banned.