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Comment by dang | Hacker News Reader

Could you please stop breaking the site guidelines? You've been doing it a lot lately, unfortunately. Not just with these off-topic complaints about downvoting, but with comments like these:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32104697

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32086054

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32085905

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32085736

We eventually ban accounts that carry on like this on HN. I don't want to ban you, so if you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.

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Some of those comments were in response to people calling me a liar with upvotes on their comments and downvotes on mine. It's incredibly irritating and frustrating when it appears those accusing me of lying not suffer any consequences.

For example (one that you linked to) a person said I was wrong and his comment wasn't flagged yet when I asked him to stop replying to my comments (many of my comments in the thread weren't on his comments) mine gets flagged https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32086054

It's certainly irritating and frustrating, but it doesn't make it ok to break the rules.

If you see a post that ought to have been moderated but hasn't been, the likeliest explanation is that we didn't see it. (There are far too many posts here for us to read them all.) You can help by flagging it or emailing us at hn@ycombinator.com.

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

(Mostly a rhetorical question) I'll probably never be able to do that if it's based on karma but my question is, if I stop saying things that get my comments flagged but proceed to get into negative ranking (ex: -50 or maybe -100 if I get on an unlucky roll) will I be banned by the system automatically? I assumed so which was the other reason that annoyed me

If karma goes below a certain threshold (I think it's -12) then the account's comments get autokilled, but only for as long as the karma remains below that threshold.

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