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Shadowbanning didn't originate at Reddit either, it's been a feature of online forums since at least the 90s.

Skywing 7y ago
This! We were shadowbanning people on IRC in like 2001. Unreal IRCd had a shadowban plugin that literally did exactly what modern shadowban features do.
- v0x 7y ago
  I don't suppose the term "Asgard" means anything of significance to you, does it?
- efdee 7y ago
  I remember /shun.
jedberg 7y ago
No of course it didn't. I'm just saying I think Facebook implemented it after we told them about it on reddit. It wasn't something they had thought of before that. We did it on reddit without knowledge of the other cases too. It's a pretty obvious solution honestly.
- nkozyra 7y ago
  That seems unlikely, shadow banning has been around for a long long time.
  - rhizome 7y ago
    I think he's saying that as far as Facebook goes, they for sure knew in 2012, so they can't plead ignorance or convergent evolution.
    - nkozyra 7y ago
      Well he said he knew that they took the idea from Reddit, that's the part that seems unlikely.
      - jsgo 7y ago
        > and they hadn't considered it before that. I'm pretty sure reddit is where they got the idea... pretty sure implies he has a hunch that they did, not 100% certainty. They may've said they hadn't considered such a thing before in a "forum" that the OP was able to overhear this either directly or indirectly and it wouldn't be a stretch to consider that in Facebook's history of borrowing from others, they then borrowed it from reddit. It doesn't discount that it existed prior to reddit, just that they may have been the source for Facebook. Microsoft was selling Office 365 subscriptions for a while and I never bought one. Eventually, I bought one from Amazon. So it is both true that I got it from Amazon, but that Microsoft had them prior.
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bandrami 7y ago
I remember it from the old bulletin boards on Freenet since at least '94.
plausibilities 7y ago
Greybeard BB Golden Rule: If Techy doesn't play nice, Techy goes to Coventry

This! We were shadowbanning people on IRC in like 2001. Unreal IRCd had a shadowban plugin that literally did exactly what modern shadowban features do.

v0x 7y ago
I don't suppose the term "Asgard" means anything of significance to you, does it?
efdee 7y ago
I remember /shun.

jedberg 7y ago

No of course it didn't. I'm just saying I think Facebook implemented it after we told them about it on reddit. It wasn't something they had thought of before that. We did it on reddit without knowledge of the other cases too. It's a pretty obvious solution honestly.

nkozyra 7y ago
That seems unlikely, shadow banning has been around for a long long time.
- rhizome 7y ago
  I think he's saying that as far as Facebook goes, they for sure knew in 2012, so they can't plead ignorance or convergent evolution.
  - nkozyra 7y ago
    Well he said he knew that they took the idea from Reddit, that's the part that seems unlikely.
    - jsgo 7y ago
      > and they hadn't considered it before that. I'm pretty sure reddit is where they got the idea... pretty sure implies he has a hunch that they did, not 100% certainty. They may've said they hadn't considered such a thing before in a "forum" that the OP was able to overhear this either directly or indirectly and it wouldn't be a stretch to consider that in Facebook's history of borrowing from others, they then borrowed it from reddit. It doesn't discount that it existed prior to reddit, just that they may have been the source for Facebook. Microsoft was selling Office 365 subscriptions for a while and I never bought one. Eventually, I bought one from Amazon. So it is both true that I got it from Amazon, but that Microsoft had them prior.
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bandrami 7y ago

I remember it from the old bulletin boards on Freenet since at least '94.

plausibilities 7y ago

Greybeard BB Golden Rule: If Techy doesn't play nice, Techy goes to Coventry