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I know reddit has shadow bans but I am not aware of it on HN. Do you have any proof?

• featherverse 9y ago
  No they don't, they just ban people. Maybe they used to, but it's an unpopular method.
  • 4ad 9y ago
    A HN ban is a shadowban. The user doesn't know he is banned unless being told, and he can post normally. You can, however, see all dead posts by enabling showdead option in your HN settings. I encourage everybody to do that. There are extremely few spam posts, most dead posts are dead for different reasons. Often I see people having been shadowbanned for years.
• grzm 9y ago
  Enable "showdead" in your profile. You can then view posts by banned accounts as well as posts that have been killed.