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Curious if how abussive commenters would respond if they weren't blocked, but comments were hidden so only mods & them can see them. Basically, auto-consume as
by nxzero 11y ago
Curious if how abussive commenters would respond if they weren't blocked, but comments were hidden so only mods & them can see them. Basically, auto-consume as much of the abussive commenter's time as possible; have there pages load slowly, have comments be buggy, give them CAPTCHAs, have auto response comments viewable to only them requesting they be civil/nice, etc.
- J_Darnley 11y agoThat's usually called a shadow ban. As a recipient of several across various platforms: it is obvious when it happens. You notice the lack of replies to comments. You notice the lack of downvotes. Then you just move to a different account, another IP, or another exit node.
- nxzero 11y agoWhat works then?
- DyslexicAtheist 11y agoif people would stop being offended by everyone always it would be a great start. I doubt that there is a technical solution other than disabling comments though.
- gotofritz 11y agoSounds like the answer is better shadow banning - random voting, bot-generated fake replies only abuser can see, etc...