> On a more personal note, I have mentioned in previous articles that Reddit shadow banned me breifly about two years ago. A few months ago, I was also shadow banned on Hacker News. I have no idea why, and I doubt that I will ever know. Regardless of the reason, the damage to this blog has been done. I spent a year and a half reaching the point where significant numbers of users on Hacker News were regularly reading my articles. Shadow banning me forced me to change my user name in order to continue posting. As a result of this, I am now back to only receiving a trickle of readers from Hacker News.

Yeah, ok.