Dang, the commenter you are fighting with is right.<p>I had my account hell banned by posting &quot;too many articles about Snowden&#x2F;NSA&quot;.<p>PG even modified the HN code to automatically friction-drag (partially flag) articles of such content.  He simply blocked content which didn&#x27;t agree with his viewpoint.<p>I lost nearly all respect for HN over this.<p>I am a solid citizen here (my comments are solid and regularly upvoted), yet my account is hell-banned primarily for my views.<p>I personally believe this is proof that &quot;peak-HN&quot; and &quot;peak-YC&quot; has already occurred.