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Re:New COVID-19 cases reported across Japan by Brave-Steak on Wednesday February 19, 2020 @08:16AM (#22365129)
It is reassuring. You can avoid and protect yourself against coughing/sneezing humans. You can't really avoid an invisible carrier.
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Re:New COVID-19 cases reported across Japan by mantap on Wednesday February 19, 2020 @08:56AM (#22365414)
You are shadow banned btw. Since this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22316460
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Re:New COVID-19 cases reported across Japan by blaser-waffle on Wednesday February 19, 2020 @01:14PM (#22368279)
New to the party -- what does that mean and how do you know they're shadow banned?
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Re:New COVID-19 cases reported across Japan by mantap on Thursday February 20, 2020 @01:56AM (#22373226)
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.

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Re:New COVID-19 cases reported across Japan by DoreenMichele on Thursday February 20, 2020 @02:00AM (#22373242)
Shadow banning is not unique to HN.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_banning

It's also known as hell banning.

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=hellban

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Re:New COVID-19 cases reported across Japan by Amarok on Wednesday February 19, 2020 @10:13AM (#22366124)
He looks alright to me
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