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It is reassuring. You can avoid and protect yourself against coughing/sneezing humans. You can't really avoid an invisible carrier.

• mantap 7y ago
  You are shadow banned btw. Since this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22316460 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22316460
  • Amarok 7y ago
    He looks alright to me
  • blaser-waffle 7y ago
    New to the party -- what does that mean and how do you know they're shadow banned?
    • mantap 7y ago
      HN has an infamous feature called shadowbanning whereby mods can ban a user in such a way that they can't tell that their account is banned. As far as the user is concerned they are not banned, but the comments they submit are immediately marked as dead when they are posted and hidden. This feature is supposed to be used for cases such as spam bots or crazy people. However for whatever reason sometimes normal users end up shadowbanned. You can tell if a user is shadowbanned if you have showdead on and most of their comments are dead for seemingly no reason. Yet they continue to post new comments unaware that they are banned.
      • DoreenMichele 7y ago
        Shadow banning is not unique to HN. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_banning https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_banning It's also known as hell banning. https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=hellban https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=hellban
      • LifeLiverTransp 7y ago
        Some find the company of the dead even preferable- there are widgets to filter out the living. Once among themselves, they can be quite civil.
  • Brave-Steak 7y ago
    ... that sucks.