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Does HN have a shadow ban mechanism?
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&qu...
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Seems like it. I think I'm shadowbanned. @dang Is that so? Why?
You're banned, but not shadowbanned, because we told you here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26930848 .
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.ycombinat…