Yes, but it's a shadow ban. Thinking aloud, I suppose there are three kinds of bans: 1 - Actual, explicit bans (formal) 2 - Intentional shadowbans (decided b

Yes, but it's a shadow ban. Thinking aloud, I suppose there are three kinds of bans: 1 - Actual, explicit bans (formal) 2 - Intentional shadowbans (decided by humans) 3 - De-facto shadowbans (unintentional artifacts of ML vertex weighting) Note that the possibility of 3 occurs even if human intervention is needed to act upon the posts flagged by the ML --- the ML is, in effect, driving the 'attentional map' of the content moderator. So this specific incident would probably be a case of #3, but it makes people angrier if you suggest it's #2, so that's what people are doing.