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Ask HN: Did HN banned me? Can you see h this?

• Arigato 5y ago
  sup
• Normille 5y ago
  Coming through loud and clear.
• throwaway4good 5y ago
  Does HN have a shadow ban mechanism?
  • hntroll666 5y ago
    Seems like it. I think I'm shadowbanned. @dang Is that so? Why?
    • dang 5y ago
      You're banned, but not shadowbanned, because we told you here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26930848 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26930848.
      • hntroll666 5y ago
        "Please don't post ideological battle comments?" What bullshit. It's happening all the time, it's just that you don't perceive them as such. Well, stew in your echo chamber.
  • yorwba 5y ago
    Yes. You can enable "showdead" in your profile to see [dead] comments hidden by default. Comments end up [dead] when they have been [flagged] by enough other users, when the user has been explicitly [banned] by the mods or if the user tripped an automated system (bot detection, sockpuppet of a banned account, lots of [flagged] comments...) If you think a [dead] comment would contribute positively to the conversation, you can vouch for it, in which case it will become visible to everyone once enough people have vouched for it.
    • yurielt 5y ago
      Wow I did not know this let me know if you can see this reply but hey thanks a lot for letting me know
  • dang 5y ago
    Yes, but primarily for new accounts: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=by%3Adang%20shadowban%20new&sort=byDate&type=story&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu.... Once an account has an established history, we say publicly that we're banning it: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=by%3Adang%20banned&sort=byDate&type=story&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
• alex14fr 5y ago
  Nope, can't see you.
• dang 5y ago
  We didn't shadowban you as such, but software kills comments when account karma goes below an extremely low threshold. That's because accounts basically never reach that state without getting involved in some guidelines-breaking flamewar. A quick look at your commenting history suggests that this was the case here. We warned you repeatedly, in fact: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25751171 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25751171 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26788381 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26788381 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26788385 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26788385 That's the sort of history we do ban accounts for, for what should be obvious reasons. Also, please don't create accounts to break the site guidelines with and please don't routinely create accounts, which is itself against the guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
  • modsmustgo 5y ago
    this website is garbage, these mods keep flagging and now I can't even post a comment.