>Can't be bothered to read it? //

Your realism and pragmatism, in offering a digest, is appreciated.

I'll have to take your advice on this one in the future. This crowd is getting as rough as /r/.

You know, I am female and I used to really be given hell at times on HN. It took me a long time to understand why that was (most of which is not relevant to this discussion) but I don't think it helps you at all to talk about "this crowd is getting as rough as..." etc type stuff. If I had just been looking to blame people here, I imagine I would have ended up banned. Instead, I took some time off, figured some things out, and was eventually able to return to a much more successful experience. As far as I can tell, that means I am currently the highest ranking (in terms of karma) actively participating female member. And this is a forum that is fairly notoriously unwelcoming of women. So I think I speak from both a place of success and the school of hard knocks on this one.

From what I can tell, there is some sort of algorithm that drops you off the front page if you comment too much in your own submissions. Most likely, the mods have good reasons for that. If you want to do well here, it helps to understand the technical environment as well as the social environment. If you don't want to understand it as a path to improving your performance, if, instead, you just want to blame someone and complain, well, it's been nice knowing you. You won't get far here. That kind of thing does not play well anywhere and it seems to play especially poorly here.

Mods responded via email and said it was from users flagging the post. I won't elaborate further, but thanks for the words of advice!