Comment by andrewmcwatters

More often than not, I’ve seen web pages that are more easily scraped than one could connect to an official API. It’s so weird. It’s like in many cases companies don’t really care, so of course people are going to scrape your pages instead.

gldrk 2 days ago

Are you aware you are shadowbanned?

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gnabgib 2 days ago

It's not a shadow ban: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45572482

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- naian 2 days ago
  
  That is how bans work here. You can log in and comment just fine, and it's not apparent to you, but your comments show as dead by default to everybody else, unless someone chooses to vouch for them.
  
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thaumasiotes 2 days ago

He shouldn't be, since it isn't true. Why did you leave this comment?

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- gldrk 2 days ago
  
  How come 90% of his comments are dead then? This one was too until I vouched for it.
  
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  thaumasiotes a day ago
  
  Fair enough; I was going by the fact that his comment wasn't [dead] and was visible when not logged in.
  
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andrewmcwatters 2 days ago

I am aware that I am banned. I appreciate you taking the time to check with me, though. And thank you for vouching my comment, too.

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