Why do you give snarky trolls like kevinxucs advice on how to avoid/circumvent the hellban? If you took the time to read his post history, you'd see he's exactly the kind of 1 line, trollish, thoughtless commenter that we don't want to see in HN.
are you... looking at the same user I am?
https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=kevinxucs
I can make the following deductions about him.
1. This user is young, likely male, opinionated. None of these are problems.
2. This user tried take a shot at IE to posture socially, and did not expect that tact to fail.
3. When he was down voted, he changed his behaviour.
I told him exactly because of his post history. It tells a very clear story of what happened. A very clear and unfair story.
edit: Oh wait, you have show dead off, don't you? Yah turn that on, it paints a different picture.
You are less cynical than I.