Around 6 years ago I was messing with my HN settings, and accidentally set my minaway to the equivalent to 6~ years (I set it to a random number w/o bothering to read what it did).
My first comment post-self-ban was much less epic though.
My first comment post-self-ban was much less epic though.
:)
Some time ago, I asked 'dang to ban my account for a month or something, as I was trying a HN detox. He told me to set minaway to some stupidly high number, and e-mail HN when I'm ready to come back. I typed some digits and banned myself for the next couple thousand years. In reality, it took me ~year to decide to come back, after finally understanding that blocking HN only causes me to seek out inferior forms of Internet use.
e: totally wrong, my bad
They seemingly have a gap from July 14th of 2018, to 4 months ago.