> To be fair, there was no public record of it until 2012 or so I'm not sure if reddit publicly acknowledged it before then, but it was certainly known that yo

> To be fair, there was no public record of it until 2012 or so I'm not sure if reddit publicly acknowledged it before then, but it was certainly known that you were doing it. (It was also pretty damned obvious that you guys were fucking with vote counts -- e.g. "66% like it" on every post -- among other questionable anti-spam tactics...) The earliest record I can find of the idea being discussed on reddit -- there might be earlier ones, this was just the earliest I've been able to dig up so far -- was in a suggestion by user ltbarcly back in June 2007: > A better idea is a silent ban. Let him post comments, and show him those comments, but just leave them out for everyone else. Source, as preserved by archive.org: https://web.archive.org/web/20070604141333/http://reddit.com/info/1vcyp/comments https://web.archive.org/web/20070604141333/http://reddit.com... There are also blog posts complaining about it from well before 2012 -- e.g. here's one from 2010: http://www.stochasticgeometry.ie/2010/03/09/silently-banned-reddit/ http://www.stochasticgeometry.ie/2010/03/09/silently-banned-... The comments on it even use the term "shadowbanned".