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We only use shadowbanning when an account is new and shows signs of spamming, trolling, or serial abuse.
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> By losing the noisy/spamming/trolling posters entirely, we might also lose their constructive/valuable content too.
That's why we added the vouching feature many years ago: so users can identify and restore the valuable comments made by banned accounts. See https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html#cvouch.