It's multiple threads, not just this one, and it's been on and off the past few days.
You can add these kind of lines:
news.ycombinator.com##tr.athing.comtr:has(a.hnuser:has-text('banana_dick'))
news.ycombinator.com##tr.athing.comtr:has(a.hnuser:has-text('sirspamalot'))
to any uBlock or AdBlockPlus type extensions with manual compatible custom filters that you might have added to your browser.
> It's quite amazing that these new "green" accounts can post as many messages as they want while I'm being restricted
That's not what is happening .. look at the account names and the number of comments made by each.