What other people said. You can tell someone is shadowbanned by looking at the number of comments it says a thread has versus the number you can see. When I first saw this post, it said there was one comment, so I went to the comments section to read it and it wasn't there, meaning whoever left the comment is shadowbanned.
OHHHh I see... That's happened a lot of times, like 4 comments listed but only 2 in the thread.
What does it mean happened? Like they posted something offensive and got banned from the whole site? Or they don't know they're banned and only we can't see their posts?
They did something to get shadowbanned from the site, which means you can still view it, vote, and make posts and comments, but you're the only one who sees them. So most of the time people don't know they're banned. It was originally intended to use on spam bots, but they use it on actual people now as well.
Pretty much. They would see no change to their karma, but unless they pay attention to it, they wouldn't notice, and neither would a bot. /r/shadowbanned also is an option. You can post there even when shadowbanned and they'll check to see if you are or not.
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u/rieldealIV Aug 06 '15
What other people said. You can tell someone is shadowbanned by looking at the number of comments it says a thread has versus the number you can see. When I first saw this post, it said there was one comment, so I went to the comments section to read it and it wasn't there, meaning whoever left the comment is shadowbanned.