I've been on HN for just over ten years now and have never been banned despite participating in all sorts of controversial discussions. HN is actually a pretty good free speech benchmark.
Yes. I actually emailed dang about it. He explained his reasons and I agreed with him. I was very prone to getting into arguments about stuff like copyright.
I've been on HN for just over ten years now and have never been banned despite participating in all sorts of controversial discussions. HN is actually a pretty good free speech benchmark.
Have you been limited to posting maximum 5 comments in any 4 hour span, while people arguing against you have unlimited comments?
Yes. I actually emailed dang about it. He explained his reasons and I agreed with him. I was very prone to getting into arguments about stuff like copyright.
The restriction just went away at some point.