If I got trespassed for shoplifting at 12 and again at 16 I wouldn’t blink twice if the store banned me at 19.

Yeah, but imagine if the CEO of the store goes on twitter and talks about you when you try and visit the store at 19, and your name and face is in the news for the rest of your life!

I palmed a candy bar a couple times as a kid, sure, out with bad company.

I've never cheated on a game, even a casual one. I would never respect someone who did.

You obviously have, and I don't respect you.

Personal attacks will get you banned here. Please don't post like this again.

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

Ridiculous. I don't respect you either. You seem like an asshole.

Personal attacks will get you banned here. Please don't post like this again.

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

Edit: you've been breaking the HN guidelines a ton lately. If you keep that up, we're going to have to ban you. Please review the rules and stick to them so we don't have to do that.

I feel I only respond to people like that who first respond that way to me. Oh well, I will stop doing that. Thanks!

I know the feeling, believe me, but from a mod perspective I can tell you that everyone always feels that way (myself included). It seems to be a hard-wired bias we all have. Therefore, everyone needs to make a conscious effort to follow the site guidelines despite that feeling (myself included). I appreciate your response!

Past explanations on this point if anyone wants to read any: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

Agreed. Anyway - looks like I am limited so likely not to participate in discussion on HN anymore anyway.

We rate limit accounts when they post too many low-quality comments too quickly and/or get involved in flamewars. Your account is rate limited because it has done a ton of that.

All is not lost; if you use the site as intended for a while, i.e. posting substantive, thoughtful comments that follow the guidelines (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html), you'd be welcome to email [email protected] and we can take a look and hopefully drop the rate limit.