The downvotes and flags were correct. You took the thread on a classic generic flamewar tangent. The guidelines specifically ask you not to do that: "Eschew flamebait. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents." - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

Then you broke them again ("Did you know the mRNA shots") and again ("Pfizer tried to hide their clinical data") and again ("Downvotes are [etc.]") and again ("you're so reactive emotionally"), and so on, pouring fuel on the fire and taking the thread extremely offtopic. All that is obviously against the rules and amounts to vandalism.

We've been asking you to follow the site guidelines for years now:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30197457 (Feb 2022)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26116840 (Feb 2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22274517 (Feb 2020)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21195104 (Oct 2019)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19815709 (May 2019)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18132361 (Oct 2018)

... yet you've continued to do it regularly:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32668726 (Aug 2022)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32453743 (Aug 2022)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32207241 (July 2022)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32206640 (July 2022)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32040335 (July 2022)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31706537 (June 2022)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31706382 (June 2022)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31635513 (June 2022)

In fact I'm finding it hard to find a recent comment by your account that isn't political battle, breaking the site guidelines, or (most often) both.

You're way into bannable territory. I'm not going to ban you right now, but if you keep this up we're going to have to. HN is trying to be a specific type of website. You're not just using it against the intended spirit, you're contributing to destroying it. We can't allow that, so please stop doing it.

so this guy gets to break tos for years yet you ban me after one infraction.

More than one:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17823155 (Aug 2018)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17815070 (Aug 2018)

You also deleted some comments around then, which presumably were even worse.

The main difference between your account and the GP, though, is that you were breaking the site guidelines within a day or two of creating your account. The threshold for banning is lower in that case, since such accounts are far more likely to be trolls (and often serial trolls). That, plus spam, are the cases when we use shadowbanning.

The GP account, by contrast, has been around for over a decade. In such cases, yes, we prefer to give warnings before banning. I think most users would consider that reasonable.

The same deal applies to you as to other banned accounts though: if you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email [email protected] and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future. They're here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

You’re being downvoted because his death wasn’t for “unknown reasons,” at least not that broadly. He was diagnosed with cancer, and he had pre operation complications that resulted in death. Surgery is complicated, bodies are complicated, it unfortunately happens. Starting conspiracy theories off the backs of a well liked, and imo amazing person, is unpopular.

This is wildly inappropriate comment to make on a notice of his passing. Would you spit out all this jibber jabber at a funeral? Please show more respect.

As someone who also lost the vaccine injury/side effect lottery:

There is a time and a place for this kind of discussion. That time is not now and that place is probably not on HN, or at the very least not on a thread mourning someone's death. You are breaking many site guidelines here; at the very least conducting ideological tirades and then editing your posts to complain about downvotes and insulting those who disagree with you. Any legitimate point you might be making is entirely undermined by the insensitive context you to decided to start this conversation in.

Please chill and please show some more respect.