"Marked you as a spammer" and "promote fraud" is your interpretation, and I believe it's wrong. A single person called your comment "link spam", that's it. And nobody even mentioned fraud.
You seem to think fraud could be the only reason for a flagged-off comment. It's the rarest reason. I cannot remember a single clearly fraudulous comment here.
And I'm sure the people who flagged my submissions and comments from time to time didn't think they were fraudulous, either. They thought they were obnoxious. Or combative. Or mean-spirited. Lots of reasons why someone might flag something.
For what it's worth, I don't think you're trying to defraud anyone. Still, I believe that this cryptocurrency you mentioned is probably fraudulous, as are all of them. :-)
Yes, you linked to ycombinator. Among other links. Nobody ever said anything about that particular link. Again, it's your imagination.
Thanks for full-quoting your comment, but that wouldn't have been necessary. I have already read it. Before flagging it.
I don't care much about you taking your words back, and your pathetic attempt at blackmail doesn't change that.
Finally, yes, HN has changed a lot. In my opinion for the better, but you're in good company, many readers lament that change. Personally I don't particularly respect (or disrespect) Paul Graham, and I'm glad this isn't a Paul Graham fan site.
Maybe it really isn't for you. Do you really want to put more energy in this fight?
I think HN went pretty much to the left, if not far-left. HN readers are pretty much on the side of Paul Krugman, Thomas Piketty's world view.
I'm on the side Milton Friedman, Paul Graham's world view.
The left consider what I believe as total shit and at the same time call me intolerant. And this irritates me a lot. There is no way of being in peace with left without being submissive or self-censoring. And I don't want to be either.
> I believe that this cryptocurrency you mentioned is probably fraudulous
So do you believe YCombinator promotes fraud? Because cryptocurrency I mentioned was on blog.ycombinator.com.
Your other comments on this topic, though, have been off-topic and tedious. Please just don't post like that, no matter how frustrated you are. If you think a post is being treated unfairly, you can email us at hn@ycombinator.com.
(On another note, I'd be careful about assuming that pg's worldview is the same as Milton Friedman's. That doesn't sound right to me.)
I mentioned DAI today in comment and essentially got banned for doing it.
In comment I provided link to interview with Olaf on blog.ycombinator.com where MakerDAO was mentioned.
So I got banned as spammer in HN for providing link to blog on YC.
It tells a lot about the level of average HN reader.