HN Shadowbans

Discussions revolve around users experiencing shadowbans, bans, or rate limits on Hacker News, including advice to email moderators at [email protected] and explanations of HN's anti-spam and moderation practices.

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esoterica Jan 9, 2021 View on HN

People get banned from Hacker News all the time, are you also upset about that?

BoorishBears Jul 24, 2021 View on HN

Can't be banned from HN right?

Rebelgecko Jan 7, 2019 View on HN

They banned you for a negative comment on HN?

mschuster91 Aug 9, 2023 View on HN

Your account seems to be shadowbanned. You might want to shoot an email over to the mods at [email protected].

dang Oct 4, 2025 View on HN

Would you please stop spamming HN with these?Normally we'd just ban the account, but your account seems to have been legit in the past.

sacrosanct Jul 5, 2022 View on HN

Upon creating an account, HN shadowbans some accounts randomly to stop spam and bad faith comments. Typically the ban is lifted after about a week, so persevere.

hammock Dec 4, 2021 View on HN

FYI, you are sh@dowb@nned and every comment you've made after this one is being h1dden from HN. You can learn more/ see them if you google hacker news sh0wde@d. I suggest making a new account or emailing [email protected]. Obfuscating some words because apparently even alerting you of this gets comments auto-flagged.

croisillon Feb 14, 2023 View on HN

You seem to be kind of shadowban (not sure what the proper term is), you might want to write an email to the hn moderation to clear that up

croisillon Dec 30, 2020 View on HN

You seem to be kind of shadowban (not sure what the proper term is), you might want to write an email to the hn moderation to clear that up

croisillon Sep 16, 2021 View on HN

You seem to be kind of shadowban (not sure what the proper term is), you might want to write an email to the hn moderation to clear that up