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В кластер входят документы, описывающие практику скрытого ограничения видимости контента без уведомления пользователя, и не входят документы об активном обмане троллей с помощью ботов.
Общие признаки: скрытая блокировка пользователей, манипуляция видимостью контента, инструменты модерации
Группа выше: Модерация контента на платформах
Смысл: The main idea is to warn users, specifically game developers, about the existence of 'shadow banning'—a deceptive moderation technique that hides a user's content without notifying them. The author emphasizes the importance of vigilance and manual verification of post visibility to avoid the psychological and practical pitfalls of being silently banned.
The author warns users about 'shadow banning' on platforms like Reddit, explaining how it silently hides content and how to detect it by logging out.
Смысл: The text describes a brief controversy where the creator of a censorship-circumvention tool was shadowbanned by GitHub for violating content policies regarding violent material, highlighting the intersection of automated moderation and digital activism.
GitHub briefly shadowbanned the creator of the GoodByeDPI utility due to links to violent content, but later restored the account and its repositories.