I didn't call you an asshole; I said you
had been one in this thread, which was a carefully circumscribed statement. I doubt very much that you are an asshole or even had a negative intention. But what you did is worse than most misbehavior on HN, because it cuts into what should be the heart of this place: substantive, respectful discussion about others' work. Worse, you'd done it repeatedly already, and been asked repeatedly to stop. That's why I chose a negative interpretation in this case.
As for your procedural complaints, holiday weekends (what are those?) had nothing to do with it, 1am enters the picture because it wasn't until 1am that I had time to deal with yesterday's user flags, and there was no 'waiting for the thread to die'. It takes a long time to write comments like the one explaining why we were banning you. Had I wanted to shove this under the rug, I'd not have bothered.
If you'd like to change your ways and treat others respectfully in comments here from now on, I'm more than happy to unban you. Other users have gone from posting assholish comments on a regular basis (I may even have been one myself) to becoming good citizens of this community. If you want to do that too, you're welcome here. But this requires sincerely accepting the model of how HN is supposed to work and doing your best to abide by it. When we give people repeated warnings and they ignore them, it's hard not to conclude that they have no intention of doing so.
As for your procedural complaints, holiday weekends (what are those?) had nothing to do with it, 1am enters the picture because it wasn't until 1am that I had time to deal with yesterday's user flags, and there was no 'waiting for the thread to die'. It takes a long time to write comments like the one explaining why we were banning you. Had I wanted to shove this under the rug, I'd not have bothered.
If you'd like to change your ways and treat others respectfully in comments here from now on, I'm more than happy to unban you. Other users have gone from posting assholish comments on a regular basis (I may even have been one myself) to becoming good citizens of this community. If you want to do that too, you're welcome here. But this requires sincerely accepting the model of how HN is supposed to work and doing your best to abide by it. When we give people repeated warnings and they ignore them, it's hard not to conclude that they have no intention of doing so.