No.. I do not believe that because I would do something it means everyone should do the same. What an odd conclusion! I believe that when people get fired up they often miss out key little nuggets of useful information.

I had the option to respond or not, I decided to do so.

Just as OP had the same option and decided to do so. Massive shocker there was missing information that would help explain things. My mind is blown. Who could have predicted it. Gosh.

I won't ask OP to ask their pal what they were doing, hacker news might think I'm just being uncouth.

Unfortunately the thread was flagged ages ago and OP won't get any useful information even though we now know it was their friend's account that was shut down and they were done by association.

I don't have a scoob what their next move is, you're trying to catch me in a paper net, and nobody else is here.