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It sure beats the Reddit system where you think you are interacting with people, only to find out a couple of days later that your fresh account is shadow-banne
by retired 8mo ago
It sure beats the Reddit system where you think you are interacting with people, only to find out a couple of days later that your fresh account is shadow-banned and nobody is seeing your comments and that none of your likes went through.
At least Facebook tells you that you are banned.
- kps 8mo agoReddit and HN.
- alex1138 8mo agoI wasn't aware HN had it, but considering the number of [flagged] by people who work for big tech I'm sure some people actually posting truthful things have ended up on the shadowban list
- perching_aix 8mo agoSince when does HN have shadowbans?
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- phpnode 8mo agosince almost forever, that's what the "show dead" toggle in your profile settings is for - it shows the dead posts from shadow banned people
- andersa 8mo agoI always assumed that those were posts that got flagged too often.
- daneel_w 8mo ago"Spamming", or rather, responding too quickly in an intense discussion, is cause for automatic shadowban here on HN. It happened to me on a previous account some years ago. The posts themselves were harmless, I merely responded to too many users in a too short timeframe. My attempts at having the ban undone also turned out to be a waste of time. Completely absurd.
- retox 8mo ago[dead]
- dymk 8mo agoNo, FB has their own shadowban system
- qingcharles 8mo agoTip: You can always tell if you are banned on Reddit by accessing the shadowban appeal page which is only visible if you are shadowbanned yourself: https://reddit.com/appeal https://reddit.com/appeal