Obviously more than one HN user has heard of C.J. Date's work on databases.
We banned you last year for egregiously violating the site guidelines, and told you why. When banned users create new accounts and show new signs of abusive behavior, we ban the new account too. The reason is obvious, but I'll explain anyway: when a banned user gives us reason to believe they've had a change of heart and will use HN as intended in the future, we're happy to unban them—but when they give us reason to believe the opposite, we do the opposite. Otherwise bannage would be a bit of a joke on a site when people can just create a new account in a few seconds (and many do).
In that case I was referring to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17922994. When a new account posts like that and we have evidence linking it to a previously banned account, we usually take it as a sign that the user does not want to use HN as intended. In such cases we extend the previous ban to the new account, for what I'd hope would be obvious reasons.
We banned you last year for egregiously violating the site guidelines, and told you why. When banned users create new accounts and show new signs of abusive behavior, we ban the new account too. The reason is obvious, but I'll explain anyway: when a banned user gives us reason to believe they've had a change of heart and will use HN as intended in the future, we're happy to unban them—but when they give us reason to believe the opposite, we do the opposite. Otherwise bannage would be a bit of a joke on a site when people can just create a new account in a few seconds (and many do).
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