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You can check if twitter is silently oppressing your account here: https://taishin-miyamoto.com/ShadowBan/

Mine currently has "reply deboosting" applied. Twitter didn't notify me of this either. I had to actively hunt it down. And there's nothing I can do to change it.

Such a shady company so far.

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Damn, I have reply deboosting and search ban. I post rarely to complain about services being down or for customer support.

Sounds like negativity to me! Silence!

Does the green check mean the ban is or isn’t being applied?

Yeah the UI is confusing. I think green check means "you passed, this doesn't apply" and red x is "the restriction is applied"

How does this work?

Note that I get different results with that site than I get on here: https://hisubway.online/shadowban/

The first site says I have a search ban, while the second says I don't.

Yeah, both seem odd. I get different results between them on many of my accounts. I'm not sure how they'd even check for some of these without authing as your account.

Shadowbans on reddit and youtube are also very annoying

Huh. I'm deboosted as well. I _rarely_ interact, and have never had poor interaction with someone. So I'm kind of surprised. Any ideas why accounts get deboosted?

Cool, got a search-ban, no idea what that is though =P

My HN account is rate limited by @dang, if I post more than an unspecified amount of comments in an unspecified time frame I get a message telling me to go away.

Isn’t everybody getting that?

No, I emailed dang and he confirmed my account was rate limited to prevent "flame wars". I get to make about 3 comments every few hours it seems.

Looking at your comment history it’s not clear how many truly add value to the discourse on HN, they’re often “throwaway snipes” at things like Apple and macOS.

It’s possible if you worked to change that and then emailed dang again they’d revisit the comment rate-limiting?

Meh, every time I get into an actual substantial discussion I get rate limited and the conversation has moved on before I get to respond. I'll admit that since the rate limit I haven't bothered to post high value comments, because if I get interesting replies I won't even get to respond back. I'll just make a new account at some point.

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