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ASK PG: Why I got banned by writing your name?

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This is throwaway account.

I really don't get it! 23 days ago I wrote an essay, about startup ideas. ( http://www.vusal.me/essays/ideas/ ) .Suddenly it was in frontpage and stayed there about 3-4 hours. After that, my account, my website, and the thread was banned. First I thought it was banned because 2 of my co-workers voted it up from same office and we use same ip. But then I started to get hate-mails, why I criticized you in my essay. I understand that there many people in this community loving you, following you, some of them are moderators in hackernews. But I don't get why I was banned, at least why my site is banned? If people don't think like me, they can write their thoughts there, why banning? Isn't hacker news about being civil?! I waited 3 weeks maybe I'll be allowed to write again, but no chance.

my banned username: zeynalov

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I'm just a participant here, and am not associated with YCombinator in any way, this this is just my observations ...

I've gone to look at that post and I can't see why that would cause you to be banned or otherwise have sanctions against you. It appears to me that any bans will have been provoked by some other behavior. The automatic systems of HN are well-known to have the occasional (and more frequent) false positives. I don't understand why you might specifically think it's that particular essay that got you banned.

It says in the guidelines:

    Please don't post on HN to ask or tell us something
    (e.g. to ask us questions about Y Combinator, or to
    ask or complain about moderation). If you want to say
    something to us, please send it to info@ycombinator.com. 

    -- http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> Please don't post on HN to ask or tell us something (e.g. to ask us questions about Y Combinator, or to ask or complain about moderation). If you want to say something to us, please send it to info@ycombinator.com.

An user account getting banned isn't something which should be discussed. You should be sending a mail.

Also, it doesn't look like you are hell-banned http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=zeynalov I have "show dead=true" in my profile, and am not seeing any of your comments as dead. If you were hell-banned, your comments would appear fine to you, but will be dead on submission and won't be visible to non-logged in or logged in with "show dead=false"(default) users.

If you do send an email, I would suggest rather than playing blame games or asking for reason, simply go for "I am banned, and I can't see why. Can you please unban me?".

autoban after too many downvotes?

Very good! Again banned!

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