You can't use that sort of username on HN—see https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme.... I've banned the account for now, but if you want to use it with a different name, you're welcome to email [email protected] and we'll get you fixed up.

(btw, the GP mentions hcaptcha)

Why is HN against asian passerine birds? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_tit

Not questioning this dang, but would be useful to add something about trollish usernames in the guidelines, and perhaps clarify what qualifies as trollish.

That belongs to a category of subrules or heuristics which are too numerous to list. If we tried to make the guidelines comprehensive that way, they would just get so long (or worse, so bureaucratic) that people wouldn't read them.

There's a limit to how much information one can get across that way, so we err on the side of explaining the spirit of the site and leave the 'case law' to specific moderation comments. One of these years I want to compile those into an extended FAQ or something, which could provide a home for the kind of documentation you're talking about.

If anyone is so weird as to want to read an entire 'essay' about this, I wrote one a couple days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27307680. The relevant subthread starts at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27303886.

Impressive how you’re able to find these quickly and quash. Follows the model of cleaning up graffiti quickly, which causes incidents to reduce over time.

How are they better? Do they have better privacy policies?