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by slededit 2756 days ago
FYI it looks like you've been shadow banned since your first posts in the thread "A female engineer's opinion on why there are fewer...".

Your posts since then have been substantive so I vouched for this one. You should contact the mods and ask them to reconsider the ban. It looks like others have vouched specific comments multiple times in the past and the mods are pretty reasonable.
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toomuchtodo 2755 days ago
Does the “show dead” setting override the shadow ban so one can view dead comments?

Interesting you can vouch for comments at ~4k karma and I cannot at ~31k.

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slededit 2755 days ago
Yes, showdead showed the comment and I wondered why it was dead because it was not too controversial.

Are you sure you can't vouch? Click on the time at the top of the comment and it should show on the page that loads. Its intentionally "hidden".

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toomuchtodo 2751 days ago
I was wrong, it appears I can vouch but as you mentioned you have to dig for the option. Mea culpa.
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oldmancoyote 2755 days ago
I hope you are referring to Thucy...

OldManCoyote

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slededit 2755 days ago
Yes. Your comments shows up just fine.

Also your account is a few years old. I've seen the mods practically beg older accounts to stop so they wouldn't have to ban them. In Thucy's case his/her first posts were in a contentious thread and there was no history. I don't think you should worry about being silently shadow banned.

I highly recommend enabling showdead, it answers a lot of questions about moderation on the site.

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