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Ask HN: What are your thought on online communities using shadow banning?
- drenvuk 7y agoEasily circumvented if you care. Call them out on it if you do. First and foremost, don't be a dick.
- pdfbadforunicod 7y agoI think it's insulting (not just to the one shadow banned) and high handed.
- larnmar 7y agoShadowbanning is reasonable and appropriate against bots, but a massive dick move when applied to humans.
- Porthos9K 7y agoJust grow some balls and publicly ban people.
- new_guy 7y agoIt's extremely useful to isolate people from the wider community, and if you do it properly it's not detectable. It definitely has its place, but it's just a tool and can be misused like any other tool. If you get a guy creepily flirting with every female that signs up and making them leave the site, hide his comments on profiles of females he's not friends with, if you've got a spammer that is trying to give away 'free trump gear', then make their posts only visible to them, if you've got a group trying to police your site by looking for 'socks' just make all their posts invisible to other members etc. Straight up banning people only works as a last resort, they'll trash your network to anyone who listens, or worse set up a rival etc.
- ydb 7y ago> It's extremely useful to isolate people from the wider community, and if you do it properly it's not detectable. It definitely has its place Absolutely agreed -- consider the impact of Russian bots on the 2016 U.S. elections. There will always be malicious actors in every social system. If you do not isolate them, their perverse ideas will spread like a cancer through the population.