We don't ban people for criticizing moderation. It's common, though, for people to make grand claims about being banned for that reason, when in fact we banned them for breaking the site guidelines or otherwise abusing the site.

Since your account isn't banned, you must be talking about a different account. Why not link to it so readers can make up their own minds?

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

That comment is https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45496427 (same subthread as this). Anyone can look and see that it's a counterexample.

Similarly: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...