WTF? We've cut you an unbelievable amount of slack over the years but if you flout HN's rules this flagrantly, I don't know what you expect us to do. Do you want to be banned?
The commentariat already punished me. The system worked as intended, I paid a misdemeanor fine of karma for a misdemeanor offense, and I made a number of better comments since, and we should all have moved on by now. This wasn't something you needed to step in on.