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This 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

• lloydatkinson 5y ago
  Seems about right for HN mods
  • valtism 5y ago
    And thank god for that. This community is definitely held together by the hard work and judicial moderation of those few.
    • lloydatkinson 5y ago
      If you count indiscriminate censorship and bias a good thing then I suppose
      • TheAdamAndChe 5y ago
        The 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.