Can confirm. Don't ask me how I know, either.

But, I can confirm that the worst part of being put in the HN penalty box is that you basically can't get out. I think that's pretty shitty.

Hmm I feel that explains a lot :(

Yeeep. Same thing happened to me. I went from getting lots of vote activity (positive and negative) and responses to… nothing essentially after I made one comment that blew up a few months ago.

It’s pretty damn disappointing. Guess I shouldn’t have been surprised tho.

Most of your recent comments are dead, and they don't seem too offensive.

TBF, I was kind of a dick in the one that blew up but not insanely. It was mostly a really political/social topic. So I did the cardinal sin of responding to that sort of topic :)

But.. yeah. Live and learn I guess. It still bothers me that they moderate it like that.