I hope you will see this comment. I wanted to let you know that your account has apparently been "shadowbanned", which means that you can see your own comments but no one else sees them unless they have "showdead" turned on in their account settings.

If you view an HN page that you commented on in an incognito window, you will see what I'm talking about.

I can only guess that the moderators took this action because of the large number of Amazon affiliate links you have been posting.

Its fine to post an occasional product link when it relates to the topic, but affiliate links are not so welcome - especially when they are disguised behind an amzn.to shortened URL. Just post an original Amazon link, with everything removed from the URL except the minimum required to go to the correct page. The URL should look like https://www.amazon.com/dp/NNNNNNNNNN/ where the N's are the ASIN.

Some of your other comments, like this one, are good quality and people have "vouched" them which makes them visible to all.

I suggest you email the moderators (address is somewhere in the links at the bottom of every page) with an apology and a promise to not post any more affiliate links. Maybe they will reinstate your account.

0 points 1 hour ago | parent | edit | on: A web-based mission control framework by NASA

Yes, as I said, this is because someone vouched it. Try turning on "showdead" in your account settings and view their comments in a logged in window, and you will see all the dead comments. Then view the same URL incognito or without showdead and you will see what I'm talking about.

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=alwaysreading