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Actually, that's not true. I entered a mildly critical comment on a YouTube video the other day, very spot on if I do say so. It immediately got a bunch of upvo
by the_biot 5y ago
Actually, that's not true. I entered a mildly critical comment on a YouTube video the other day, very spot on if I do say so. It immediately got a bunch of upvotes, then that stopped completely. My comment was on top still, but that's just how YouTube displays your own comments.
But when checking the video without logging in to YouTube, my comment was gone.
So it looks like comments can be quietly deleted without the commenter even knowing it.
THAT is censorship.
- drran 5y agoThis is so-called "hell ban", "shadow ban", "ghost commenting" and it is heavily used by Hacker News admins here. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_banning https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_banning
- lloydatkinson 5y agoSeems about right for HN mods
- valtism 5y agoAnd thank god for that. This community is definitely held together by the hard work and judicial moderation of those few.
- lloydatkinson 5y agoIf you count indiscriminate censorship and bias a good thing then I suppose
- TheAdamAndChe 5y agoThe censorship isn't indiscriminate, it actually discriminates against and suppresses users who trend towards flamebait. Without careful moderation, this site would quickly turn into a worse version of Reddit.