&gt; <i>Hell, I was once banned from here for relating how I met Grace Hopper as a kid (in a comment on an article about Grace Hopper.)</i><p>I don&#x27;t believe anyone was ever banned from HN for that. How about let&#x27;s see a link?<p>There&#x27;s a cottage industry of HN users who go on about why they were banned (&quot;because I supported Bradley Manning!&quot; &quot;because of my unpopular opinions!&quot;). Pay attention and you&#x27;ll notice that these complaints are always linkless. They never supply links to their allegedly innocent and suppressed contributions. Why not? Because then people could see what they really did do, and make up their own minds.<p>We make mistakes, and we&#x27;re happy to correct them. But no way do we ban people for &quot;relating how I met Grace Hopper as a kid&quot;.<p>We detached this subthread from <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=11048013" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=11048013</a> and marked it off-topic.