Of course, some sites are banned on HN. zerohedge.com has been banned for a long time, because its articles tend to be sensationalized, which makes them off topic here. A user vouched for that submission, which unkilled it. Then other users flagged it, and a moderator penalized it as sensational, or at least as not rising above the noise level amid the flood of covid-19 submissions. This is all routine.
Yes, HN automatically flags articles from certain sites. You can see the post with your account, but if you look with a different account, you'll see it is flagged and not visible for most people.
The link is not flagged, it was automatically hidden. Why show it when I am logged in vs show something else for user who is not logged in ? Isn’t that “shadow banning links” ?
Not entirely sure what I’m looking at in the pic. Could you give a bit of detail in a comment?
Their submission got flagged so it vanished from the new links page. They think HN is doing it automatically for certain sites.
The link was not flagged it was just hidden to other users but not shown to users who are not logged in. Please see my explanation below.
FWIW, I can see the link on the "new" page, whether logged in or not.
I don't know if HN "shadow bans" certain sites or not but, TBH, I hope they do.