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Ask HN: Hacker News Shadow Ban

4 points by hunkins ↗ HN
I appear to be shadow banned on this site. My newest comments, even on my own posts, are hidden to everyone but me. Has anyone dealt with this before? If yes, how can this be fixed?

I am genuinely trying to share stories along the journey of building my own venture.

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hunkins
Screenshot of comment: https://ibb.co/fX9J746

Post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37990039

The comment is not visible unless I am logged in. Other accounts or anonymous viewership show the post at 0 comments.

brucethemoose2
The comment is marked as [dead]. This is how HN moderates comments, members can see the "deleted" comments but they are locked and greyed out.

I am no mod, but I'd guess it was banned for self promotion rules or as part of spam detection.

hunkins
Interesting. This was my first post in a while, so spam doesn't make sense to me. I'll re-read the rules on promotion, this was a feature I built from the ground up, so I would imagine sharing it in a community of builders and creators would be fine.

Appreciate the insight!

DamonHD
Would "Show HN" have been the right way to do it then?
hunkins
I tried this initially, but had the exact same experience. So I deleted that "Show HN" post and reposted under the general. Comments blocked both times.
DamonHD
Interesting (and annoying).

You might just have been unlucky and had a barrage of grumpy "get off my lawn" flaggers/downvoters. (I try not to be one of those, but sometimes fail.)