Tell HN: You can get ghostbanned for mentioning certain “unpersons.”

Re:Tell HN: You can get ghostbanned for mentioning certain “... by mtmail on Wednesday February 08, 2023 @08:06AM (#34707449)

You can see all shadow-banned submissions when you enable showdead=yes in your profile. I have it enabled so the "Who knows what other ..." argument is less scary, it can be seen.

You said you used an alt account. An easier explanation is that one of the anti-spam algorithms saw it as duplicate and auto-blocked the submission. That happens to brand new throw-away accounts all the time and it needs another existing HN user to click 'vouch'. Not a moderator, it's enough for another user to click it. Entirely possible simply nobody did. Can be time of day, can be the topic, and yes could be the "unperson" (your words).

Regarding the topic: I noticed AI-generated posts or posts of chats with AI don't go well (not enough users upvote) on HackerNews. Maybe it's deemed not relevant enough. Today there was a "ChatGPT Poetry: Trump vs. Biden" submission for example.

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Re:Tell HN: You can get ghostbanned for mentioning certain “... by karamanolev on Wednesday February 08, 2023 @08:14AM (#34707523)

FWIW, OP says "essay on AI written by someone". I.e. not an essay written by an AI, but where the topic is AI.

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Re:Tell HN: You can get ghostbanned for mentioning certain “... by mtmail on Wednesday February 08, 2023 @08:18AM (#34707567)

Ah, ok. I missed that. I would help to have a link to that submission. Like I said it's not deleted, it can be made seen again and then (that needs a moderator though) the account status can be checked. The anti-spam algorithms are pretty good but not perfect.

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