shadowban

Meanings

Verb

  • To ban a discussion board user without their knowledge, allowing them to continue reading and commenting, but rendering their comments invisible to other users.
  • Of a search engine: to filter out results without the publisher's knowledge.

Noun

  • An instance of shadowbanning.

Related

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Origin

  • shadow + ban

Modern English dictionary

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