[dmamills]

It's your definition that is misunderstood, not the oxymoron.

> Shadow banning, also called stealth banning, hellbanning, ghost banning or comment ghosting, is the practice of blocking or partially blocking a user or the user's content from some areas of an online community in such a way that the ban is not readily apparent to the user

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

[remarkEon]

Okay. I guess I'm saying that I think it's dumb when you don't tell the user that their account is in this state.

[nickthegreek]

HN doesnt tell you the state of your account. In fact, I don't know of any service that says that they do.

[HDThoreaun]

That's the whole point though. Otherwise they'll just make a new account.

[tasuki]

Why?