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Shadowbanning seems like a technique that only worked back when it was an original idea that nobody knew about. Nowadays if you have a dedicated cheater who act
by apetresc 9y ago
Shadowbanning seems like a technique that only worked back when it was an original idea that nobody knew about. Nowadays if you have a dedicated cheater who actually has something concrete to gain from abusing the system, it's absolutely trivial to "test" if you're shadowbanned by checking on an account in good standing, and treating that exactly the same as a supposedly-ineffectual normal ban.
- kazinator 9y agoIf shadowbanning traps most of the casual abusers, leaving only the elite cheaters, we cannot quite say that it doesn't work, right? Shadowbanning can be refined to deal with the situation you have identified. For instance, the abusive account's postings can be shown to an account in good standing, if their IP addresses are the same, or in the same class C, or in recent login history, those accounts did appear to some from the same machine or small network. The system can also detect a pattern of behavior whereby some account in good standing is expressing unsual interest in accounts in poor standing, like specifically searching for their postings or looking at profiles or whatever. Or maybe some more subtle clues.