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Does HN have a shadow ban mechanism?

• hntroll666 6y ago
  Seems like it. I think I'm shadowbanned. @dang Is that so? Why?
  • dang 6y ago
    You're banned, but not shadowbanned, because we told you here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26930848 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26930848.
    • hntroll666 6y ago
      "Please don't post ideological battle comments?" What bullshit. It's happening all the time, it's just that you don't perceive them as such. Well, stew in your echo chamber.
• yorwba 6y ago
  Yes. You can enable "showdead" in your profile to see [dead] comments hidden by default. Comments end up [dead] when they have been [flagged] by enough other users, when the user has been explicitly [banned] by the mods or if the user tripped an automated system (bot detection, sockpuppet of a banned account, lots of [flagged] comments...) If you think a [dead] comment would contribute positively to the conversation, you can vouch for it, in which case it will become visible to everyone once enough people have vouched for it.
  • yurielt 6y ago
    Wow I did not know this let me know if you can see this reply but hey thanks a lot for letting me know
• dang 6y ago
  Yes, but primarily for new accounts: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=by%3Adang%20shadowban%20new&sort=byDate&type=story&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu.... Once an account has an established history, we say publicly that we're banning it: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=by%3Adang%20banned&sort=byDate&type=story&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...