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@dang: is someone automatically flagging almost all of this user's posts? many past comments and threads seem innocuous at a glance but have been flagged dead.

Wow... how would you even know this? Whose wrath did I incur?

HN implements shadowbans that way:

Your comments appear, but are automatically flagged dead.

the world can be quite brutal, and different. we're not special. it's upsetting when we get a reminder, but maybe this is a chance to learn that much of the world is.. not so nice.

> defends it in any way, and shame on a culture that thinks it is okay.

It?

The event. The mentality. The brutality.

Nothing to do with the origin of their law then, interesting.