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The problem is your weird anti-abuse hacks automatically shadow-ban whatever account I have if I load HN from certain IPs. So I can’t use any account that’s been burned that way. Of course in the past you’ve denied that this happens, but I can demonstrate it easily.

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Let's try a different way. I've marked your current account legit so as to exempt it from HN's anti-abuse software. As long as you keep following the site guidelines, it should be fine to stick with this one from now on. If you'd rather use a different account, let us know at hn@ycombinator.com.

I'm not sure what past statement you're referring to, but HN's software doesn't shadowban anybody just for accessing the site from a specific IP, so whatever you're experiencing, that can't be it. Unless it's a bug we haven't seen.

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