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They are not shadow banned. They were explicitly banned. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29091010 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29091010 If there'

• AnimalMuppet 5y ago
  So, um, what does "banned" mean if they can continue to post?
  • grzm 5y ago
    As typically used, the term "shadow banned" is a ban without alerting the user that they are banned. That's not the case here. On HN, "banning" means to to have your posts be dead by default. And "banned" is the language 'dang himself used in the message to the user.
    • 0des 5y ago
      There are also numerous bans with no notice at all, just a sudden stream of gray comments that are 0 minutes old.
      • grzm 5y ago
        Yes, there is also autobanning and filtering software. But that is not what happened here.
• josh_today 5y ago
  Wow got banned for saying a 200% tax on gasoline is another example of a government looking to tax the population into poverty and dependence. The entire web is 1984 now. Crazy couple years
  • dang 5y ago
    We banned your account for breaking HN's rules, as I explained to you when I banned it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29127479 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29127479. It has nothing to do with your particular statement about gasoline taxes or anything else. You could have made exactly the opposite statement and it would have had the same effect. The deeper issue is that HN is not a site for people who want to defeat their political enemies; it's a site for people who want to have curious conversation and learn from each other. I don't think that's too hard to understand.