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So, a slightly sketch thing to do is to shadowban the user, so that they don’t know that nobody can see their posts. They might get bored. You might need to mod
by noodlesUK 6y ago
So, a slightly sketch thing to do is to shadowban the user, so that they don’t know that nobody can see their posts. They might get bored. You might need to modify some of your application code though. You can do this by their IP if they haven’t caught on.
- bartread 6y agoI'm not sure it's that sketchy if the behaviour is abusive. The problem with shadowbanning, although equally true of other options such as degrading experience, is that it's open to abuse by site owners.
- g105b 6y agoI was going to suggest the same thing. If you ban malicious users, they will come crawling back, almost as if breaking your system is a challenge.
- bluehatbrit 6y agoSomething I've seen people do in the past on older forums is to degrade the experience for the offending user as well, adding things like load speed delays etc. The idea being that they get frustrated and eventually move on. It's also somewhat sketchy but it was quite popular in forums / bulletin boards.
- codeisawesome 6y agoAre IPs really that effective for isolating users? VPNs, Tor, and even just Dynamic IPs issued by local ISPs made me always feel like that's a poor way to ban malicious users.
- muzani 6y agoSomeone regularly posting lewd content might be used to getting ignored. The user might not even notice. An even more sadistic trick would be to make it random, just enough that they think you're censoring certain words in messages but not the user.