[jcranberry]

Its pretty disappointing that your comment was dead and I had to vouch for it.

[yorwba]

NeutronStar was banned in 2018 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17553252

[jcranberry]

So you're saying all their comments are automatically dead until someone vouches for them? Or just he was downvoted on reputation?

[smegsicle]

> automatically dead

a technique known as 'shadowbanning'

[detaro]

"Shadowbanning" is if you do that without telling the user that they are banned, with the goal of them not realizing they are banned for a while so they waste time instead of trying to circumvent the ban.