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Sounds like you got caught up in their spam & abuse systems, if I had to guess. Spam/scams are at extremely high levels right now across every platform (Oddly somehow, HN keeps things under control) -- so companies are getting aggressive with anti abuse techniques and capturing innocents by mistake.

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I was amazed that I could make over $10,000 a week in my spare time working from home! You can too! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIcSWuKMwOw

This is probably the funniest comment on HN.

Okay so I knew it was gonna be a rickroll but I'm particularly amused at which Rickroll you chose.

I got a feeling that so many of the new accounts being made are for spam or scams so that some crappy ML algorithm overfits towards new account as a marker for scams.

Twitter had the same problem a while ago where I could not make an account without it getting instabanned.

Twitter uses instabans as a way to fish for phone numbers - you can unban the account instantly by providing one.

Oh ye that might explain it. I thought it was incompetence rather than malice but that might be too naive.

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