More often than not, I’ve seen web pages that are more easily scraped than one could connect to an official API. It’s so weird. It’s like in many cases companies don’t really care, so of course people are going to scrape your pages instead.
That is how bans work here. You can log in and comment just fine, and it's not apparent to you, but your comments show as dead by default to everybody else, unless someone chooses to vouch for them.
I am aware that I am banned. I appreciate you taking the time to check with me, though. And thank you for vouching my comment, too.