Comment by brk | Hacker News Reader

Comment by brk | Hacker News Reader

I have no idea about the banning status of your IP address. I do find it somewhat disappointing that a hacker news type could not do a little more low-level troubleshooting to try to at least approximate the root cause.

Have you tried your same PC/browser but going through a proxy? Have you tried your same account on the same PC in a different browser? Tried logging in from a free/unsecured wifi somewhere? Tried deleting cookies in your browser? Tried a different PC (library, friend, other family member, etc.).

Perhaps it's just my mood this AM, but it seems rather "do my homework for me" of you to post this up without having done some research and troubleshooting on your own.

it's not as bad as asking what ^H stands for :)

Well, it's not exactly easy to Google for ^H. Punctuation is annoying like that.

who needs google:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/^H

And a hacker asking for control-h ? (this is hacker news, isn't it ?)

Well, just because I've read the Jargon File doesn't mean everyone else has.

"Have you tried your same PC/browser but going through a proxy? Have you tried your same account on the same PC in a different browser? Tried logging in from a free/unsecured wifi somewhere? Tried deleting cookies in your browser? Tried a different PC (library, friend, other family member, etc.)."

I used a web proxy to post this and as I noted in my original post (see paragraph 2) I tried Google Chrome as well as curl. I have also tried accessing the site using a different computer on the same network/IP. I did not mention this in my original post and in hindsight I see that I should have.

Perhaps this question should have been just addressed to PG (and an email would have been sufficient), but on the other hand when I realized that the userscript might have been the cause a few minutes after posting, ashleyw's and jacquesm's comments were valuable.

So please excuse me if I wasted your or anyone else's time.

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