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Just one comment about vouch, which seems to have have changed behaviour fairly recently.

Used to be that if a shadowbanned user posted a clearly substantive comment a vouch would always (nearly always?) restore it. Now it never does - I guess vouch is now just a vote that needs x votes.

Suspect that's going to unintentionally have even more people talking to themselves, because they've not yet noticed the shadowban.

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It is possible to lose vouching privileges if the mods feel the comments you're vouching for are uncivil or do more harm than good.

That's also possible. Don't think I have vouched for something that shouldn't, but I would say that, wouldn't I? :)

So have others noticed a change, or did I accidentally flag my own account somehow?

>or did I accidentally flag my own account somehow?

If you did, the mods won't necessarily tell you, you'll just have to email them and find out.

they notify you when you get banned. i’m currently one of them. I didn’t notice for a few days though because the site doesn’t have an obvious way of notifying you when you get a reply.

I've found https://www.hnreplies.com to be pretty useful.

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