[antidesitter]

I already addressed that under the very comment you linked to. The fact that you readily accuse me of breaking the rules but then consider discussing the merits of that accusation as "too tiring" and "playing a game of cross-examination" is very concerning.

Also, notice how some of my comments are, without any valid reason, being falsely flagged and silently hidden from view. What do you make of that?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20379602

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20378337

I have no intention of emailing you to "appeal" this retaliatory ban, because you've made it clear that you will ban anyone for questioning the merit of your accusations. You've made a mockery of the HN moderation process.

[dang]

At this point it seems clear that you don't want to use HN as intended, so I've banned this account. If I've guessed wrong (moderation is guesswork, and we do guess wrong), you're welcome to email [e-mail] and give us reason to believe that you'll use the site as intended from now on.

Edit: you added your last paragraph after I posted that. Actually, we frequently unban people and are happy to, as long as we believe they'll follow the guidelines in the future. We don't ban people for asking questions—we spend countless hours answering them. What doesn't make sense is to play the infinite concern-troll game, which can easily suck all our resources away from the rest of the site. Since we've had these exchanges before with no effect and you've continued to break the site guidelines, I made that call. I believe that the bulk of the community understands why we have to do this, even if it means guessing wrong sometimes, and supports it as long as we're willing to correct mistakes.