Shadow banning, also called stealth banning, ghost banning or comment ghosting, is the act of blocking or partially blocking a user or their content from an online community so that it will not be readily apparent to the user that they have been banned. For instance, shadow banned comments posted to a blog or media website will not be visible to other persons accessing that site from their computers.
By partly concealing, or making a user's contributions invisible or less prominent to other members of the service, the hope may be that in the absence of reactions to their comments, the problematic or otherwise out-of-favour user will become bored or frustrated and leave the site, and that spammers and trolls will not create new accounts.
By partly concealing, or making a user's contributions invisible or less prominent to other members of the service, the hope may be that in the absence of reactions to their comments, the problematic or otherwise out-of-favour user will become bored or frustrated and leave the site, and that spammers and trolls will not create new accounts.
I was trolling a snowflake FB group and got my ass shadow banned, it was fun while it lasted.
Dude i have to keep shadow banning these extremists for posting lies and fake news.
Dude i have to keep shadow banning these extremists for posting lies and fake news.
by Sir Kick Ass October 14, 2020
Get the Shadow Banningmug. Ban chod means sister fucker. The one who fucks her won sister but sometimes in India and Pakistan freinds say ban chod to other friends if they are not listneing to them or so annoying.
by rraahheell May 14, 2006
Get the ban chodmug. A ban hammer is an avatar depicting a club, used to threaten banishment by antisocial bullies who become moderators at forums & virtual communities.
Its an offensive picture used to intimidate people, by nazi-like creeps at forums who become mods or admins because they have no creative abilities, friends or respect for others; so they lurk about bullying & abusing people as a way of feeling superior & powerful in the community (when clearly they are most inferior as evidenced by their lack of useful abilities to contribute with otherwise)
As in life, the antisocial, mean & dumb are the ones who go about abusing & threatening people to inflict rules...rules being useless constraints picked arbitrarily, not so much for the purpose of prohibiting an unwanted behavior, but more as an excuse to commit abusive acts to show "who's the boss of who"
A "ban hammer" picture is designed to imply these bullies are to be feared. Bullies only know how to feel okay by making people scared of them. It gives them a weird dirty thrill. This is why they get excited by a picture of a hammer being used to violently destroy other people's stuff. This is why they like & use the "ban hammer" avatar.
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Mods, banning, & report buttons are the things that ruin otherwise perfectly good fun, friends & being creative, at forums and virtual communities
The ban hammer avatar symbolizes this kind of pointless interference and repression, which is valued only by bullies seeking excuses to exist.
Its an offensive picture used to intimidate people, by nazi-like creeps at forums who become mods or admins because they have no creative abilities, friends or respect for others; so they lurk about bullying & abusing people as a way of feeling superior & powerful in the community (when clearly they are most inferior as evidenced by their lack of useful abilities to contribute with otherwise)
As in life, the antisocial, mean & dumb are the ones who go about abusing & threatening people to inflict rules...rules being useless constraints picked arbitrarily, not so much for the purpose of prohibiting an unwanted behavior, but more as an excuse to commit abusive acts to show "who's the boss of who"
A "ban hammer" picture is designed to imply these bullies are to be feared. Bullies only know how to feel okay by making people scared of them. It gives them a weird dirty thrill. This is why they get excited by a picture of a hammer being used to violently destroy other people's stuff. This is why they like & use the "ban hammer" avatar.
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Mods, banning, & report buttons are the things that ruin otherwise perfectly good fun, friends & being creative, at forums and virtual communities
The ban hammer avatar symbolizes this kind of pointless interference and repression, which is valued only by bullies seeking excuses to exist.
by republicans.are.homos January 17, 2010
Get the Ban Hammermug. The art of annoying the absolute hell out of someone for the pure enjoyment of watching their faces explode shortly after.
"Why's little Johnny being so difficult today?" "Oh don't worry miss, he's just pulling a Banning.."
"If you don't stop pulling a Banning you'll be doing your own washing next week.."
"If you don't stop pulling a Banning you'll be doing your own washing next week.."
by frank_sinatra September 5, 2011
Get the Pulling a Banningmug. (also "soft-ban") A restriction, as in character selection or technique usage in a competitive versus game, that is never explicitly stated by the players or rulebook but still stands due to unspoken player agreement. Does not apply in prize competitions.
"Akuma is not officially banned, but there is what is called a soft ban. In other words, all top players in Japan agree not to play Akuma without there being any official enforcement of this agreement."
by Mirabel_ January 9, 2014
Get the soft banmug. Creating an event in World of Warcraft so large that you will inadvertently crash your server and become banned from the game.
by Hansonificator July 19, 2011
Get the Swifty Banmug. The act of bypassing your ban from a site, which usually leads to you getting banned from that site again because the janitors are too dumb to realize that dynamic IPs are a thing.
by /b/leach_my_eyes April 26, 2021
Get the ban evasionmug.