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Re:The value of downvoting, or, how Hacker News gets it wron... by pseudalopex on Wednesday April 14, 2021 @09:08PM (#26815083)
All their comments start dead. People call it shadow banning or hell banning. And some other accounts have [banned] after the name but keep commenting.
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Re:The value of downvoting, or, how Hacker News gets it wron... by kodah on Thursday April 15, 2021 @10:54PM (#26828873)
They just posted a new comment that isn't dead. I really doubt HN does that kind of stuff.
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Re:The value of downvoting, or, how Hacker News gets it wron... by dang on Friday April 16, 2021 @12:19AM (#26829405)
Comments by banned accounts are killed by software, but other users can vouch for them to unkill them (see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html). That's what happened in both of those cases.
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