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Sounds like his account has been put into some sort of shadowban mode, which is needed for the {human|bot} spammers out there (not that I know why it would be

by judge2020 5y ago

Sounds like his account has been put into some sort of shadowban mode, which is needed for the {human|bot} spammers out there (not that I know why it would be applied to them).

Nihilartikel 5y ago
There's a chance that the individual was acting bot like.. perhaps they posted the same comment, verbatim, to multiple videos in a short time span.
- rvnx 5y ago
  That's what he says, he goes to some small channels, and keep saying "Great content!" or "Great video!"
  - dylan604 5y ago
    Then it doesn't really sound like the world is missing much by not having that comment. Make a comment on HN like "Great thread!" and it'll drop like a stone. It's a useless comment. "Great thread/video! I really like ______" would at least tell someone why you think it is great and much more useful.
im3w1l 5y ago
Bots and other un-persons.
dntrkv 5y ago
As is the case 99% of the time someone makes stupid claims like this. You would think of all people, the users on HN would know this, but apparently not.
kristofferR 5y ago
Shadowbanning is pretty useless for spammers, the pain they receive by getting one of their hundred bot accounts made invisible is nothing compared to the pain the real person gets. Shaddowbanning should be like the justice system, it is better to let a a hundred guilty go unpunished than to convict one innocent person.
- judge2020 5y ago
  The justice system would work if the 'hundred guilty' were actual humans - instead one human gets to be tens of thousands of bots at once since creating bots has an astronomically low cost compared to creating / hiring 100 humans.
0xcde4c3db 5y ago
I'll bet he got flagged for "handjob", which seems like a plausible entry on the list of words disproportionately likely to be used by spambots. Somewhat poetically, "poof" also seems to be on a list (perhaps because in some countries, it's a slur for a gay or effeminate man) [1]. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVlobDyTqeY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVlobDyTqeY

Sounds like his account has been put into some sort of shadowban mode, which is needed for the {human|bot} spammers out there (not that I know why it would be applied to them).

Nihilartikel 5y ago

There's a chance that the individual was acting bot like.. perhaps they posted the same comment, verbatim, to multiple videos in a short time span.

rvnx 5y ago
That's what he says, he goes to some small channels, and keep saying "Great content!" or "Great video!"
- dylan604 5y ago
  Then it doesn't really sound like the world is missing much by not having that comment. Make a comment on HN like "Great thread!" and it'll drop like a stone. It's a useless comment. "Great thread/video! I really like ______" would at least tell someone why you think it is great and much more useful.

im3w1l 5y ago

Bots and other un-persons.

dntrkv 5y ago

As is the case 99% of the time someone makes stupid claims like this. You would think of all people, the users on HN would know this, but apparently not.

kristofferR 5y ago

Shadowbanning is pretty useless for spammers, the pain they receive by getting one of their hundred bot accounts made invisible is nothing compared to the pain the real person gets. Shaddowbanning should be like the justice system, it is better to let a a hundred guilty go unpunished than to convict one innocent person.

judge2020 5y ago
The justice system would work if the 'hundred guilty' were actual humans - instead one human gets to be tens of thousands of bots at once since creating bots has an astronomically low cost compared to creating / hiring 100 humans.

0xcde4c3db 5y ago

I'll bet he got flagged for "handjob", which seems like a plausible entry on the list of words disproportionately likely to be used by spambots. Somewhat poetically, "poof" also seems to be on a list (perhaps because in some countries, it's a slur for a gay or effeminate man) [1]. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVlobDyTqeY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVlobDyTqeY