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Is it really a shadowban if you could vouch for them? Shadowban is when the poster sees their stuff looking normal and no-one else (modulo mods) sees it at all
by andreareina 6y ago
Is it really a shadowban if you could vouch for them? Shadowban is when the poster sees their stuff looking normal and no-one else (modulo mods) sees it at all right?
- saagarjha 6y agoBy default, nobody sees those comments–you have to go to showdead in your profile to enable it. I keep it on because it gives me occasional insight into the dregs of the site and the effort that goes into moderating it, but also lets me save the insightful comments that get killed (or, very rarely, erroneously flagged.)
- andreareina 6y agoRight, I showdead for similar reasons. I figured that shadowbanning would prevent even showdead from revealing those comments, but apparently not: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23686672 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23686672
- saagarjha 6y agoI don’t think there is an actual “shadowbanned” on Hacker News, I’ve just seen various stages of banned/flagged/dead users. I mean, I guess I wouldn’t know if there was, but I’ve never heard anyone mention it so…
- andreareina 6y agoThat's what I thought too, that it was just regular banning. But 'dang says shadowban, and [1] implies he does mean the type where the user doesn't know. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24790627 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24790627