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You can check if twitter is silently oppressing your account here: https://taishin-miyamoto.com/ShadowBan/ https://taishin-miyamoto.com/ShadowBan/ Mine current

You can check if twitter is silently oppressing your account here: https://taishin-miyamoto.com/ShadowBan/ https://taishin-miyamoto.com/ShadowBan/ Mine currently has "reply deboosting" applied. Twitter didn't notify me of this either. I had to actively hunt it down. And there's nothing I can do to change it. Such a shady company so far.

nicksiscoe 4y ago
Does the green check mean the ban is or isn’t being applied?
- hbn 4y ago
  Yeah the UI is confusing. I think green check means "you passed, this doesn't apply" and red x is "the restriction is applied"
dado3212 4y ago
How does this work?
xeromal 4y ago
Damn, I have reply deboosting and search ban. I post rarely to complain about services being down or for customer support.
- NaturalPhallacy 4y ago
  Sounds like negativity to me! Silence!
oauea 4y ago
My HN account is rate limited by @dang, if I post more than an unspecified amount of comments in an unspecified time frame I get a message telling me to go away.
- ant6n 4y ago
  Isn’t everybody getting that?
  - oauea 4y ago
    No, I emailed dang and he confirmed my account was rate limited to prevent "flame wars". I get to make about 3 comments every few hours it seems.
- nixgeek 4y ago
  Looking at your comment history it’s not clear how many truly add value to the discourse on HN, they’re often “throwaway snipes” at things like Apple and macOS. It’s possible if you worked to change that and then emailed dang again they’d revisit the comment rate-limiting?
  - oauea 4y ago
    Meh, every time I get into an actual substantial discussion I get rate limited and the conversation has moved on before I get to respond. I'll admit that since the rate limit I haven't bothered to post high value comments, because if I get interesting replies I won't even get to respond back. I'll just make a new account at some point.
adfjalkfja 4y ago
Shadowbans on reddit and youtube are also very annoying
JTon 4y ago
Huh. I'm deboosted as well. I _rarely_ interact, and have never had poor interaction with someone. So I'm kind of surprised. Any ideas why accounts get deboosted?
convery 4y ago
Cool, got a search-ban, no idea what that is though =P
Chilko 4y ago
Note that I get different results with that site than I get on here: https://hisubway.online/shadowban/ https://hisubway.online/shadowban/ The first site says I have a search ban, while the second says I don't.
- drusepth 4y ago
  Yeah, both seem odd. I get different results between them on many of my accounts. I'm not sure how they'd even check for some of these without authing as your account.

nicksiscoe 4y ago

Does the green check mean the ban is or isn’t being applied?

hbn 4y ago
Yeah the UI is confusing. I think green check means "you passed, this doesn't apply" and red x is "the restriction is applied"

dado3212 4y ago

How does this work?

xeromal 4y ago

Damn, I have reply deboosting and search ban. I post rarely to complain about services being down or for customer support.

NaturalPhallacy 4y ago
Sounds like negativity to me! Silence!

oauea 4y ago

My HN account is rate limited by @dang, if I post more than an unspecified amount of comments in an unspecified time frame I get a message telling me to go away.

ant6n 4y ago
Isn’t everybody getting that?
- oauea 4y ago
  No, I emailed dang and he confirmed my account was rate limited to prevent "flame wars". I get to make about 3 comments every few hours it seems.
nixgeek 4y ago
Looking at your comment history it’s not clear how many truly add value to the discourse on HN, they’re often “throwaway snipes” at things like Apple and macOS. It’s possible if you worked to change that and then emailed dang again they’d revisit the comment rate-limiting?
- oauea 4y ago
  Meh, every time I get into an actual substantial discussion I get rate limited and the conversation has moved on before I get to respond. I'll admit that since the rate limit I haven't bothered to post high value comments, because if I get interesting replies I won't even get to respond back. I'll just make a new account at some point.

adfjalkfja 4y ago

Shadowbans on reddit and youtube are also very annoying

JTon 4y ago

Huh. I'm deboosted as well. I _rarely_ interact, and have never had poor interaction with someone. So I'm kind of surprised. Any ideas why accounts get deboosted?

convery 4y ago

Cool, got a search-ban, no idea what that is though =P

Chilko 4y ago

Note that I get different results with that site than I get on here: https://hisubway.online/shadowban/ https://hisubway.online/shadowban/ The first site says I have a search ban, while the second says I don't.

drusepth 4y ago
Yeah, both seem odd. I get different results between them on many of my accounts. I'm not sure how they'd even check for some of these without authing as your account.