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Ban

Meaning in social media & content creation, with examples

nounCommon term

In social media & content creation, ban means: An exclusion from an account, platform or community, imposed temporarily or permanently under its rules.

In Turkish: erişim yasağı, katılım yasağı

How it is used

Moderators impose or lift a ban; it differs from a visibility reduction or removal of one post.

Example sentences

  1. The moderator imposed a seven-day ban for repeated harassment.

    The exclusion lasts for a defined period rather than forever.

  2. The account received a permanent ban after repeated rule violations.

    The sanction removes access without a scheduled end.

Common collocations

  • temporary ban
  • lift a ban
  • moderateTo check comments, messages or posts in an online space and remove or hide anything offensive, spam or against the rules.
  • shadowbanA situation in which a platform quietly limits who can see an account's content without telling the owner, so reach suddenly drops.

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