[kixiQu]

> On a more personal note, I have mentioned in previous articles that Reddit shadow banned me breifly about two years ago. A few months ago, I was also shadow banned on Hacker News. I have no idea why, and I doubt that I will ever know. Regardless of the reason, the damage to this blog has been done. I spent a year and a half reaching the point where significant numbers of users on Hacker News were regularly reading my articles. Shadow banning me forced me to change my user name in order to continue posting. As a result of this, I am now back to only receiving a trickle of readers from Hacker News.

Yeah, ok.

[TrueGeek]

He added this update:

> This articles was "flagged" by Hacker News about 90 minutes after I posted it there

I regularly get HN posts in my RSS feed that end up being flagged when I click through to them, but this url has only been submitted once from what I can tell. Plus, even if it had, adding "flagged" to the title of a post is far from censorship.

I'm not sure why he thinks HN is removing his posts.

[detaro]

Looking at the submission history for the domain, you see a point where a few submissions are [dead], and then resume from another account - I suspect that was the point of getting shadow-banned, if I'd had to guess because they only submitted their posts and basically never interacted on the site otherwise. Why that would do long-term "damage" in any way I'm not sure. (And of the course the replacement account doesn't look much better regarding the "don't just self-promote your posts" rule)

[kixiQu]

> ...you're going to go through life thinking that girls^H^H^H^H^HInternet users don't like you because you're a nerd^H^H^H^H^H^H shadowbanned. And I want you to know, from the bottom of my heart, that that won't be true.

-- the social notwerk