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shadowban

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Verb

  1. To ban a user from a community without their knowledge, allowing them to continue reading and commenting, but rendering their contributions invisible or less visible to other users.
  2. To filter out results without the publisher's knowledge.

Noun

  1. An instance of shadowbanning.

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