You can't abuse new users like this, even if you suspect they're not a genuine new user. We don't want HN to be hostile to outsiders. Welcoming new good-faith users is a thousand times more important than the irritation of serial trolls, so it's important to err on the side of the former.

Also, please see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30925375, because what you did downthread was much worse yet. That's the sort of thing we ban people for, and I don't want to ban you.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html