[cheese_goddess]

A warning would have been welcome, because from my point of view I was interacting mainly with other single-purpose, agenda-driven accounts that flamed me incessantly. Early on in this there was even a very creepy attempt to dox me or something similar and there was no obvious reaction to that from the site.

Anyway, sorry for causing you to ban the account.

Edit: I created this account not to break HN rules with, but to contribute my (limited) knowledge of dairy science and cheesemaking technology which I thought would be interesting to HN users, since it's not very common. I got embroiled in flame wars because threads about food invite ideologically driven posts, and because my username acts as a red flag to some users. Just this last couple of weeks I had three or four try to use it as an argument against me, to imply I have some kind of ulterior motive (profit?) for the things I post.

I believe I was being targeted and dogpiled on and that I was not getting into any constructive conversations with anyone, because all the conversations I cared to join (about food or about the environment) were always very one-sided and ideologically driven.

Oh. I also created this account because personal characteristics force me to compartmentalise my online presence.

It totally went to shit, I admit. Sorry again.

[dang]

> Early on in this there was even a very creepy attempt to dox me or something similar and there was no obvious reaction to that from the site.

I don't know what you mean by "from the site", but if you mean from the site moderators, the likeliest explanation is that we didn't know about it. We don't let users attack others that way (see for example https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...) though of course I'd have to see the specific example to say anything specific.