>> I'm not fine with you guys disabling my account.
As a person who runs a large online community, may I politely tell you that I would be very annoyed by you at this point? Very often members grow disgruntled with the community and do stupid things, like start new threads just to complain about the administration. I think you had some valid comments, but you chose to do this in a more dramatic, more rude, more confrontational way than it needed to be done.
If someone did that on my community, I'd assume they were drunk or having a bad day and place a temporary (1-day) ban on their account. If that person then registered a second account with the sole purpose of "expressing dissatisfaction" to me, I'd permanently ban their IP range from the web site.
Understand that although you don't think you did anything wrong, your behavior was border-line trolling. You have no interest in seeing politics and public outrage - we have no interest in seeing comments like yours right now.
If you really have a problem, contact the administrators discreetly and politely, and apologize. It isn't YOUR account, it's free (gratis) access to THEIR servers they're letting you have. It's on their terms, so be respectful to them.
From the above explanation: "I had a huge list of saved URLs from stories that I upvoted". That and some of the stories have some great comments on their HN page that I want to keep my easy link to.
pg is the person you need to speak to about this kind of thing. Moderators can't prevent you from logging in, as far as I know. They can only deaden stories.
As a person who runs a large online community, may I politely tell you that I would be very annoyed by you at this point? Very often members grow disgruntled with the community and do stupid things, like start new threads just to complain about the administration. I think you had some valid comments, but you chose to do this in a more dramatic, more rude, more confrontational way than it needed to be done.
If someone did that on my community, I'd assume they were drunk or having a bad day and place a temporary (1-day) ban on their account. If that person then registered a second account with the sole purpose of "expressing dissatisfaction" to me, I'd permanently ban their IP range from the web site.
Understand that although you don't think you did anything wrong, your behavior was border-line trolling. You have no interest in seeing politics and public outrage - we have no interest in seeing comments like yours right now.
If you really have a problem, contact the administrators discreetly and politely, and apologize. It isn't YOUR account, it's free (gratis) access to THEIR servers they're letting you have. It's on their terms, so be respectful to them.