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Glossary
Shadow ban
A shadow ban is a quiet limit on who sees an account's posts, applied without notice and known only to the platform.
What the word covers
It is used for a range of quiet limits: a post that ranks lower, a reply folded away, an account missing from search for everyone except its owner.
What they share is the silence. The account keeps working, so nothing arrives that could be argued with.
Platforms rarely use the phrase themselves, and some deny the practice under that name. What people describe with it is a limit that arrives without a message.
The word also travels further than the practice. A post that nobody opened and a post that nobody was shown look the same from the inside.
Why it is hard to prove
Your own view is the one view that is certain to look normal, because a platform shows you your own posts.
A fall in numbers has ordinary causes as well: a season, a change in ranking, a topic that stopped travelling. A drop is evidence of a drop and of nothing else.
A look from a window that is not signed in shows the public view of a page. It shows what is visible and never why, and the why is the part in question.
A second account of your own is not a control either. Two accounts differ in age, in history and in what they posted, so a difference between them explains nothing by itself.
What this product does not measure
Nothing in the app reads views, placement or who saw a post. There is no counter for reach here and no screen that could turn amber when one falls.
So this page does not hand you a list of symptoms. Such a list would be a guess written in the voice of a measurement.
The reason is plain enough: reach sits on the platform's side of the wire, and this product lives on yours.
What it can show instead
Four readings exist, and all four are about your side of the connection rather than the platform's decision.
None of the four proves or disproves a quiet limit. They answer a different question: whether your own side of the work is in order.
What a site reads
The self-test inside a profile shows the values a page can take from it, green and red alike.
Where a profile leaves from
The exit address belongs to the profile, and a check names the country it came out in.
What the workspace did
History lists who opened which profile, who stopped it and from which country they signed in.
How much was opened today
The pace counter counts pages opened in a profile and never blocks an action.
Often confused with
Three things are called by this name in conversation and decided in three different places. Only the first of them announces itself.
Account ban
The account stops working and the screen says so. Nothing about it is quiet.
An action limit
A platform holds one kind of action for a while and usually names both the action and the wait.
A ranking change
A feed that reorders for everyone is not a decision taken about your account.
What this does not do
- It does not measure reach. Nothing in the app reads views, impressions or search placement, so no screen here can say that an account was hidden.
- It does not detect a quiet limit. There is no reading for one, and a product that invented the reading would be worse than a silent one.
- It does not reach a ranking decision. A browser separates work places and tells you what a site can read from each of them.
- It does not speak for a platform. Whether a quiet limit exists, and under what name, belongs to that platform and changes without notice.
Check it
Each claim here is one place in the code and one stand.
- The pace counter counts pages opened and refuses nothing
- apps/desktop/src/lib/pace.js
- What the app measures about a profile is what a page can read from it
- apps/desktop/src/lib/fpAudit.js · apps/desktop/test/fp-audit.js
- The three shapes a workspace names are a country, a cluster and a burst, and reach is not among them
- apps/server/src/logs/suspicion.ts · apps/server/test/подозрительная-активность.js
Questions
- Will the app tell me that I am shadow banned?
- No. It reads nothing about reach, and a screen that guessed at it would be worse than a blank one.
- Is this the same as an account ban?
- No. A ban stops the account and says so, while the word here is used about an account that keeps working.
- Does a second profile prove it?
- It shows how a page looks to a visitor who is not signed in. That is a view rather than a reason, and the reason stays with the platform.
- Does changing the proxy help?
- An address decides where traffic leaves from. A decision about an account travels with the account, not with the exit.
- Why is there no checklist of symptoms here?
- Because nothing here measures reach. Everything on this site is meant to be checked in a file, and a symptom list could not be.
See what a check can actually tell you
A check reads your browser. It never reads what a platform decided about an account.