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Shadow banning, also called stealth banning, hell banning, ghost banning, and comment ghosting, is the practice of blocking or partially blocking a user or the user's content from some areas of an online community in such a way that the ban is not readily apparent to the user, regardless of whether the action is taken by an individual or an algorithm.
Ban evasion (or block evasion) is the act of attempting to get around a block, ban or other form of sanction imposed on the person's original account, whether temporary or permanent, on a website. Alternate accounts set up by people evading blocks or bans from websites are referred to as sock puppets .
Discord has worked with the Southern Poverty Law Center to identify hateful groups using Discord and ban those groups from the service. [122] Since then, several neo-Nazi and alt-right servers have been shut down by Discord, including those operated by neo-Nazi terrorist group Atomwaffen Division , Nordic Resistance Movement , Iron March , and ...
In this case a number of the Facebook personal profile pages represented causes, rather than real people. Facebook "offered to help convert the profiles to pages that are designed to represent companies, groups or causes." [95] The spokesperson went on to say that "the Met Police did not ask Facebook to take down this content." [95]
Do not block someone where you have, or may seem to have, a conflict of interest with regard to the editor in question or the topic in dispute – known as being "involved". This is generally construed very broadly by the community, to include current or past conflicts with an editor (or editors) and disputes on topics, regardless of the nature ...
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(A global block is not the same as a global ban.) In addition to being globally blocked, registered users (not including temporary accounts) may also be globally locked, which prevents anyone from logging into the account. A current list of globally blocked IP addresses/accounts is available at Special:GlobalBlockList.
For example, if someone is topic-banned from "Weather" for ten months, but on the sixth month edits the "Climate" section of California, four months from the ban expiry, then the ban may be restarted at ten months, so if the editor does not subsequently evade the ban again, their eventual total duration would be 16 months. Repeated evasion may ...