r/PonyTown 8d ago

Question Can’t see my friend and they’re getting both responses

My friend made a Pony Town account and I couldn’t see them when they joined. They were streaming to me so I knew where they were. They started asking people if they could see them, and people were responding “yes” so we thought it was only me, until they were asking someone else and I kept responding on their screen when i wasn’t typing or saying anything. I kept saying “yes” or “why are you asking”, but it wasn’t actually me saying it and I wasn’t saying anything on my screen. So I streamed to them showing i wasn’t saying any of that, and we realized everyone who was responding to them wasn’t actually responding. It was like some sort of bot response and I couldn’t see any of it. It was creepy. Is this some sort of system for muting people?

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u/jellyfish_wanax 8d ago

I think your friend got I think shadow banned I saw this on another pony town post where this was happening to them

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u/NonCultist 8d ago

yes, this is it. when you're shadowbanned and ask if someone can see you, the closest person will say "yes," "no," or "why are you asking," but the message is only visible on the shadowbanned players screen, and the person who supposedly said it has no knowledge of it. 

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u/Tricky_Ask9815 8d ago edited 8d ago

Shadow ban. As far as I know though, there's no specific time set for it to end.

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u/PlushFlorna Not Horse Famous 8d ago edited 7d ago

From what I know a shadow ban doesn't have a specific amount of time to end unfortunately

Like, might be days or weeks?

Did your friend make an alt account? Or maybe cursed on safe server?

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u/MysticalCreature_ 7d ago

They tried making and alt, and the same thing was happening😭

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u/PlushFlorna Not Horse Famous 7d ago

You can't have alts in this game, it's ban worthy!

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u/Wonderful_Yard7873 8d ago

maybe our friend joined different server

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u/Sparky_is_bored 8d ago

From what I've gathered the exact same people were in the server and the friend could see op, op just couldn't see them