Yes, your previous https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=ttyltrful appears to be banned. Likely, it was after you ignored Scott's warning here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12684066. Statistically, it's probably a good decision to ban new accounts that start off with two snide comments.

The particular comment you linked (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12863445) seemed reasonable, so I 'vouched' for it. It doesn't look like that was enough to bring it back from the dead, though. You (or anyone else) can see it if you turn on the "Show Dead" option in your profile.

Thank you

EDIT: I should point out that the second snide comment was sarcasm on a topic using ML to detect sarcasm and not intended to by snide. Just a little joke for those of us who have worked on this problem.

It does look like ttyltrful was banned.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12684780

If you enable "showdead" in your account settings for huffpopo, you should be able to see them.

As for banning dissenting opinions, watching the behavior of sctb and dang, it's pretty clear to me that they ban based on uncivil behavior, not content.

Users on the other hand do sometimes flag or down vote to express disagreement.

Thanks. Makes sense, I was AB testing the community.

I'll be quitting HN now. I won't bore anyone with details. All the best.