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No they don't, they just ban people. Maybe they used to, but it's an unpopular method.
by featherverse 9y ago
No they don't, they just ban people. Maybe they used to, but it's an unpopular method.
- 4ad 9y agoA 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.