Yes, and it’s not like they just insta-ban every infraction.

I’ve broken the guidelines on this site before. The mods reply and say “hey, stop doing that, here is the guideline”. I stopped doing it. Life continues.

(They do react differently if you show a pattern of disregard rather than a one-time event; ‘dang before’ might pull up some of those in a search.)

One of the virtues of HN is polite prodding when the rules are broken.