> Nothing but grief. I post my opinion here, and I get shadow banned. Every-time.
Your assertion is that it happens to you regularly. Have you considered that it's actually you, and maybe there is a way to express your opinion clearly without getting shadow banned?
> As a developer -contract or fulltime- for the last 30 years, you would think people would listen.
As an intelligent person, one would think you might learn how to adapt your methods of expression.
I also know of occasions where people actually asked for advice on what they are doing wrong and got genuinely helpful responses. Perhaps you could consider that.
Edit: To the people/person who downvoted - I don't care. I like HN, and I find the comments mostly valuable and the discussion mostly civil. After spending a lot of time on many forums over several decades I've come to the conclusion that this is mostly because of the strong moderation. If people are being shadow-banned here then there will be a reason underneath. They can complain as much as they like, but it's likely that if they don't change then the shadow-banning will continue. If they want to participate, and want not to be shadow-banned, then they need to change their behaviour, and seeking advice is often helpful.
So I stand by what I said, and in replying to the tone of the comment by Cytronex, I stand by how I've said it.
>Your assertion is that it happens to you regularly. Have you considered that it's actually you, and maybe there is a way to express your opinion clearly without getting shadow banned?
Since he was already shadow banned for this exact comment and it's his very first with this account I don't think it's on him.
> Since he was already shadow banned for this exact comment and it's his very first with this account I don't think it's on him.
One of us is mis-understanding things.
You seem to be saying that the account "Cytronex" is shadow-banned, but it isn't, so I'm not sure what you're saying. This comment[0] has been downvoted, and that makes the comment display in a light grey, but that's not the same as shadow-banning.
That account isn't banned, and what you said about new accounts definitely isn't true.
HN has a lot of anti-abuse software. It's possible that you saw some of its effects and drew an over-general conclusion.
You and anyone else are welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com if you have questions about what's going on with your account. We're happy to answer questions, and to roll back bans or penalties when people give us reason to believe they will use the site as intended.
But s/he's made two comments, and neither has been killed. Both are heavily down-voted, but that's not the same.
Even so, if anyone keeps getting shadow-banned then I'd expect that they'd learn how to make comments that don't get them shadow-banned. If they just keep banging against the moderation without changing their behaviour and without adapting to the community, maybe they really don't belong here.
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Finding it hard to care, given the comments I've seen.
As a developer -contract or fulltime- for the last 30 years, you would think people would listen.