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You are shadowbanned and have been writing mostly into the void for the last three months. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48067472 https://news.ycombinat

by inigyou 4mo ago

You are shadowbanned and have been writing mostly into the void for the last three months. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48067472 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48067472

DarkUranium 4mo ago
I'm confused, how can I see it, for example?
shmeeed 4mo ago
Strangely, I'm still seeing the comment. How does that work?
- inigyou 4mo ago
  A user with enough reputation and who has enabled the option to view censored comments can vouch for a censored comment, restoring it.
  - rootusrootus 4mo ago
    I wonder how that algorithm works. At the risk of discussing a bit of a taboo topic (are there rules against this? there might be...), I've never vouched for a comment and had it come alive. I have many times been the final nail in a comment where my flag caused it to die, but I have never seen the opposite with vouch.
    - losvedir 4mo ago
      Interesting. Every time I've ever vouched a comment, it came alive. (Though the last one I vouched ended up dead again after enough people flagged it, oops. I hope that doesn't mean I lost my power. In my defense, it was flagged to death based on being AI [apparently], which I didn't pick up the signal on, nothing super terrible / controversial.)
    - inigyou 4mo ago
      You are probably shadowbanned from flagging and vouching, which is separate from a commenting and posting shadowban. A shadowbanned comment only requires one vouch to come alive. A comment that is dead because of excessive flags or moderator action may require more.
marcosdumay 4mo ago
Looks to me that the ban was reversed at some point. The GP's comments are quite reachable.
- inigyou 4mo ago
  Enable showdead and scroll through their history
  - marcosdumay 4mo ago
    They have a lot of dead comments, and their recent comments are all non-dead. Either people are vouching for those again and again, or the ban was lifted at some point. I don't really know how this works here, but the first option seems unlikely to me.

by inigyou 4mo ago

You are shadowbanned and have been writing mostly into the void for the last three months. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48067472 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48067472

DarkUranium 4mo ago

I'm confused, how can I see it, for example?

shmeeed 4mo ago

Strangely, I'm still seeing the comment. How does that work?

inigyou 4mo ago
A user with enough reputation and who has enabled the option to view censored comments can vouch for a censored comment, restoring it.
- rootusrootus 4mo ago
  I wonder how that algorithm works. At the risk of discussing a bit of a taboo topic (are there rules against this? there might be...), I've never vouched for a comment and had it come alive. I have many times been the final nail in a comment where my flag caused it to die, but I have never seen the opposite with vouch.
  - losvedir 4mo ago
    Interesting. Every time I've ever vouched a comment, it came alive. (Though the last one I vouched ended up dead again after enough people flagged it, oops. I hope that doesn't mean I lost my power. In my defense, it was flagged to death based on being AI [apparently], which I didn't pick up the signal on, nothing super terrible / controversial.)
  - inigyou 4mo ago
    You are probably shadowbanned from flagging and vouching, which is separate from a commenting and posting shadowban. A shadowbanned comment only requires one vouch to come alive. A comment that is dead because of excessive flags or moderator action may require more.

marcosdumay 4mo ago

Looks to me that the ban was reversed at some point. The GP's comments are quite reachable.

inigyou 4mo ago
Enable showdead and scroll through their history
- marcosdumay 4mo ago
  They have a lot of dead comments, and their recent comments are all non-dead. Either people are vouching for those again and again, or the ban was lifted at some point. I don't really know how this works here, but the first option seems unlikely to me.