I'm shadow banned by DuckDuckGo and Bing

Post by donatj » Sun, Jan 15, 2023, 2:02 PM UTC

HomeDeLaPot wrote: post #25

donatj wrote: post #12

This triggered me to DuckDuckGo my own site and immediately I notice the top result is someone rehosting my OSS on a page loaded with pages of crap SEO content. Scrolling further, I don’t seem to find my own site either… https://donatstudios.com I’ve added my site into Bing webmaster tools, we’ll see if it helps I guess.

Wow. I think I've used your circle generator on that other site without realizing it. That sucks. I've bookmarked yours now!

Post by masklinn » Sun, Jan 15, 2023, 2:06 PM UTC

leni536 wrote: post #36

rzzzt wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

XSLT is a template language where you match snippets of XML using XPath expressions and output... anything else, in this case HTML using templates that can make use of the attributes, inner content, etc. of the captured XML portion. "An elegant weapon for a more... civilized age."

I would never call XSLT elegant, it is horrible IMO.

Post by ilyt » Sun, Jan 15, 2023, 2:09 PM UTC

cactusplant7374 wrote: post #23

tasuki wrote: post #17

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Yes. Unfortunately people increasingly use "shadow ban" to just mean "ban", perhaps it sounds cool?

Elon wants to redefine the term as well but for the purpose of a coordinated witch hunt. People like using shadow ban because it sounds more malicious vs. content that is no longer actively promoted by a company. It's hard to claim you're a victim if the reason is you're just not that interesting or popular.

Post by hutzlibu » Sun, Jan 15, 2023, 2:10 PM UTC

rapnie wrote: post #29

supermatt wrote: post #4

This is not a shadow ban. A shadow ban is when it appears to you that you are not banned, but from others perspective you are.

Is there also a term for being algorithmically suppressed on a social media platform, I wonder? I.e. a much more subtle, harder to dectect mechanism whereby the algorithms ensure you get some exposure, but never the same as other unsuppressed people would get based on similar activity. Or only exposure to a certain limited subset of the graph based on some metrics (e.g. just your 'friends' so no one points out you ar…

Post by ilyt » Sun, Jan 15, 2023, 2:11 PM UTC

extheat wrote: post #28

cactusplant7374 wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Elon wants to redefine the term as well but for the purpose of a coordinated witch hunt. People like using shadow ban because it sounds more malicious vs. content that is no longer actively promoted by a company. It's hard to claim you're a victim if the reason is you're just not that interesting or popular.

Well if you are silently placed on a hide list (by manual human intervention without you being able to know without a third party), then by all means that is a shadow ban. Edit for clarity.