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Bots that are unapproved, or usernames that violate the username policy due to a resemblance to a bot, are immediately and indefinitely blocked if they violate the bot policy, most commonly by editing outside the operator's or their own userspace. The edits of a bot are considered to be, by extension, the edits of the editor responsible for the ...
"Shadow banning" became popularized in 2018 as a conspiracy theory when Twitter shadow-banned some Republicans. [22] In late July 2018, Vice News found that several supporters of the US Republican Party no longer appeared in the auto-populated drop-down search menu on Twitter, thus limiting their visibility when being searched for; Vice News alleged that this was a case of shadow-banning.
Discord is messaging software you can access on the web or through a downloadable application.. Use our Discord server to talk with others in the Wikimedia NYC community, share NYC-related articles/photos, chat during edit-a-thons or other events, and plan activities.
IRC operators are divided into local and global operators. The former are limited to the server(s) they have specific access to; however, global operators can perform actions affecting all users on the network. In order to perform their duties, IRC operators usually have the ability to: Forcibly disconnect users (Kill) Ban (K-line or G-line) users
In October 2024, Russia banned Discord, following fines and a request to remove more than one thousand pages and channels. This ban negatively affected their military, who had been using it for front line communications. [78] [79]
A ban is not merely a request to avoid editing "unless they behave". The measure of a ban is that even if the editor were to make good or good-faith edits, permitting them to edit in those areas is perceived to pose enough risk of disruption, issues, or harm, to the page or to the project, that they may not edit at all, even if the edits seem good.
Discord provides official bot APIs which allow custom elements such as dropdowns and buttons. In spring 2022, Discord released an official "app directory" where server owners can add bots to their servers in-Discord. The Verge described bots as an "important part of Discord". [82]
The ban applies to all pages of Wikipedia including articles, talk, user talk and noticeboards, but it may be appealed at a noticeboard in six months. 2013-10-07 Indefinite Otto Placik: Topic ban User is topic banned from all edits relating to plastic surgery, broadly construed.