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I've tested the "shadow-banning" by making posts (not with this account) and then logging out... and seeing the posts disappear. Could that happen for some othe

• dang 4y ago
  Yes, there are other reasons why a post might get killed that are not the same thing as an account being banned. If an account is banned, all its posts are killed (except the ones that users vouch for - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html). Other filters, though, will kill a post without banning the account. For example, a domain might be banned, in which case all submissions of URLs from that domain will get killed—but in most cases this won't affect the account. (You're welcome re answering! I try hard to answer all the questions I see, at least the sincere ones that it seems possible to answer - but yes, there's also just too much to do a good job in every case.)