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We fixed the formatting of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20877657 and detached this comment.



Shadow banning is unethical. Why aren't you displaying notice to the users?


When an account has been around for a while, we tell the user we're banning it and why. But shadowbanning is useful in other cases, such as for spammers, or for accounts connected with a history of abuse on HN.




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