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shadow-ban

shadow-ban is the alternative form of shadowban.

Meaning of shadowban

Verb

shadowban (third-person singular simple present shadowbans, present participle shadowbanning, simple past and past participle shadowbanned)

  1. (Internet, transitive) 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.
    • On Wednesday a Vice News story reported that some senior Republican officials were not visible in automatic search results. Vice framed this as “shadow banning” without providing any evidence that it was deliberate.2018 July 27, Jason Wilson, “What is 'shadow banning', and why did Trump tweet about it?”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 19 Apr 2019
  2. (Internet, transitive) To filter out results without the publisher's knowledge.

See all 3 meanings of shadowban

Forms of shadow-ban

Verb
third-person singular presentshadow-bans
present participleshadow-banning
past participleshadow-banned
pastshadow-banned
Noun
pluralshadow-bans

Questions about shadow-ban

What is shadow-ban the alternative form of?
Shadow-ban is the alternative form of shadowban.

Words near shadow-ban in the dictionary

  1. shadow witch
  2. shadow witches
  3. shadow work
  4. shadow zone
  5. shadow zones
  6. shadow-ban
  7. shadow-banned
  8. shadow-banning
  9. shadow-bans
  10. shadow-box
  11. shadow-boxed

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