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Re:Reddit censorship by dang on Saturday June 18, 2016 @05:06PM (#11930591)
> Hacker News does shadowbans too which I am not happy about, but that's another story.

We almost never do that anymore except in cases of spammers or new accounts that appear to be trolling, i.e. the cases where telling people you banned them tends to be problematic. Apart from those, we almost always post a comment in the thread saying that we banned the account.

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&prefix=false&page=0&date...

Re:Reddit censorship by minimaxir on Saturday June 18, 2016 @05:14PM (#11930626)
I have noticed those comments recently and they are much of an improvement. :)