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> What shall we call that instead Deindexed/delisted. Same as we called it before "shadow ban" was widely known as a term.

• Jensson 4y ago
  Delisted would imply that you wouldn't see your listing yourself, or that when you try to post a new listing they would stop you. Shadow banning is when you post to a listing, it says that your listing was successfully posted, but it wasn't really posted. Twitter does that, it doesn't tell you that what you post wont be reached by the people you are posting to. Most people don't have many followers, they just reply to tweets and those replies will show up for the original tweeters. Twitter shadow banning you means that the items you post no longer shows up as responses. Sure the small subset that follows you can still see them, but 99.99999% of twitter wont see it, so it is a 99.99999% of a shadow ban. If they told you that any of this happened anywhere it wouldn't be a shadow ban.
  • 3np 4y ago
    > Delisted would imply that you wouldn't see your listing yourself, or that when you try to post a new listing they would stop you. It does not. Delisting = removed from list. Deindexed: removed from index. Banning implies denying access. There's an important distinction there with Twitter (user authenticates and publishes through Twitter) vs Google Search (indexes public sites). If Google silently stops showing your Google Ads and doesn't inform you, that would be more appropriately described as "shadow banning". There's no "user" or "account" in a web search engine so the term doesn't really fit.