> what's with the new moderation technique of just marking comments of some users as dead from the moment they post?
That's not new, and most of those people have been told that they were banned.
People can vouch for individual comments (click the timestamp, click the vouch link) to undead them. If you think a person is being unfairly moderated I guess you can email the mods to let them know.
dang has spoken about shaddowbanning here (and lots of other posts too) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23253674
Thanks, it appears to be the autokilling then and I must have just noticed it more in the past few days. It seemed weird because there's so much that I consider normal/harmless (and where much worse is left alive), but the authors may of course have posted more problematic comments in the past that lead to the flags.
Re:No Brilliant Jerks
by dabbledash on Sunday May 24, 2020 @11:51AM
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Are you talking about draw_down’s comment? Doesn’t look dead to me.
I've seen this more and more recently. Is that a new approach to shadow banning? Is that automatically applied when multiple comments are flagged by some amount of people? Are the affected users aware, or is that hidden from them while they're logged in?