The ban filter is getting very wonky.
I cannot even submit the wordpress 3.6 annoucement from wordpress.org, apparently any url with wordpress in it is considered spam?
Still hoping to get back my _ck_ account someday.
If you don't getted banned by HN at least once, you aren't trying hard enough
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Re: If you don't getted banned by HN at least once, you aren't trying hard enough
#12This might be of interest: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4761102
Sounds like his account got banned not his IP. Which means it was most likely not due to his refreshing but his content submission (spamming).
Re: If you don't getted banned by HN at least once, you aren't trying hard enough
#13In the future, you can just use the timestamps on the new submission page to gauge the rate of submission. The "n minutes ago" of the last page on "new" is a reasonable moving average of the current submission rate. How fast were you reloading the page?
Yeah, good call. I probably clicked refresh once a second for 10 seconds. I guess they thought I was DDOS'ing the site.
You would get an IP ban in that case, not an account ban.