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Re:I think that ghostbanning is unethical by dennis_jeeves1 on Tuesday July 26, 2022 @10:44AM (#32238990)
>I haven't seen HN use shadowbanning to censor anyone.

I have been. ( I would be surprised if you did see this message). Profile of the banned account is https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=dennis_jeeves

Re:I think that ghostbanning is unethical by Fatnino on Tuesday July 26, 2022 @10:46AM (#32239040)
This one showed up
Re:I think that ghostbanning is unethical by dennis_jeeves1 on Tuesday July 26, 2022 @10:55AM (#32239186)
Thanks Fatnino for confirming it showed up.

While I appreciate the complexity, effort and pains of what Dang and PG are doing there is some evidence that they are sensitive souls, and cannot stand even polite personal criticism. I cannot be sure of this however.

Re:I think that ghostbanning is unethical by smt88 on Tuesday July 26, 2022 @12:15PM (#32240248)
I've personally criticized dang and he has responded without banning me. PG is an arrogant clown, and I've criticized him many times without incident. He seems to have nothing to do with this site anymore.

I looked at your comment history, and my guess is that you were banned for certain rants and health conspiracies, like this one:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28100359

Re:I think that ghostbanning is unethical by dennis_jeeves1 on Tuesday July 26, 2022 @01:42PM (#32241349)
If you are indeed correct, surely they think that the average HN user is an idiot that needs to shielded from my 'stupid' post. Either that or I'm adding too much noise to the discussion in which case I suspect that technically it may be challenge to add a feature where an individual reader can have the ability to "mute" comments from people that he/she does not wish to see, but others may continue seeing it.
Re:I think that ghostbanning is unethical by smt88 on Tuesday July 26, 2022 @04:38PM (#32243661)
I don't think you got banned for writing stupid posts. It's that they hinted at easily-disproven conspiracy theories, which (as you mentioned) is noisy. But on top of that, your tone was often curt, condescending, and not particularly curious, which I'm sure made other users hostile to you and inclined to flag your posts.