1200bps

When you're first banned in any way it's pretty easy to get upset about it. Stating that someone owes you an apology is silly, but I know from personal experience that it is not a great feeling.

The thing that I remind myself of though is that if HN didn't have counterintuitive rules that it would likely be more like reddit which I think would be a bad thing.

I was not hellbanned - where everything I posted was instantly dead.

To be honest the only thing I'm sure of is that I was slowbanned. I timed page loads 10 times with the slowbanned account and they averaged about 11 seconds. Then page loads with not being logged in averaged about 1 second. Then page loads with a new account averaged about 1 second as well.

The junky thing is that the account was almost 7 months old and had 3,324 positive karma but I guess I said something that ticked someone off:

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=300bps

As far as I can see, HN already has randomized algorithms. I just had to create a new account because my six-month old 3,000+ karma account just got slowbanned and silentbanned for apparently no reason.

Out of nowhere, anywhere from 6 to 14 seconds to load the front page (or any other HN page) when logged into that account.