They&#x27;re kind of caught between a rock and a hard place here.<p>HN doesn&#x27;t have a lot of resources to combat abuse (notice how much abuse prevention is just &#x27;dang --- who runs all of HN --- personally writing corrective notices [they&#x27;re not even the same notices! Dan, get a shortcut completer!]).<p>I think a pretty big part of their strategy is to wait for serial abusers to do something stupid and then penalize their accounts. It&#x27;s an arms race. If they list all the things you can do to get a submission penalized, they&#x27;re making it harder to catch serious abusers.