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Right or not, I think charitably, the person you are responding to is pointing out that this is not a new thing in social media sites. It's a decades old techni
by bagels 5y ago
Right or not, I think charitably, the person you are responding to is pointing out that this is not a new thing in social media sites. It's a decades old technique at this point.
- bobthechef 5y agoShadow banning isn’t really something used in private messages, no?
- atatatat 5y agoApparently by Facebook.
- kaladin-jasnah 5y agoWeChat does it (as well) [0]. [0] https://citizenlab.ca/2020/05/wechat-surveillance-explained/ https://citizenlab.ca/2020/05/wechat-surveillance-explained/
- mgiampapa 5y agoHackernews does shadowbanning as well.
- bagels 5y agoIt was done at the unnamed social network I worked at, over 10 years ago. To combat spam, mostly. People posting links to scam sites to watch sports games.
- btbuilder 5y agoWhen faced with software/malware that was appending links to user's instant messages back in 2005, back-end code to silently drop the user's messages was put in place. This was a messaging service that had ~200 million users.
- herbst 5y agoFacebook is doing this for a while. Pretty sure they always checked privately sent links. Some years ago I sent a .tk domain to a few friends and it got shadow banner after a few minutes (it was a harmless meme site).
- iamacyborg 5y agoI recall vBulletin 3 software having a mode to specifically make the website slow and frustrating for certain users. https://www.managingcommunities.com/2009/09/14/troll-hack-global-ignore-tachy-goes-to-coventry-and-when-to-use-them/ https://www.managingcommunities.com/2009/09/14/troll-hack-gl...
- saagarjha 5y agoI believe Hacker News does this too (disclaimer: I have never experienced this firsthand, and the people I hear it from are obviously not impartial sources).
- onethought 5y agoI’ve experienced this. If you are downvoted in quick succession you will get a “you are posting too quickly” error if you try to reply to anything… even if you didn’t post anything except the original post. Seems to last about a day.
- saagarjha 5y agoI think that's just the standard rate-limiting; there is supposedly also a thing where Hacker News will throttle the connection as well.
- huibf 5y agoThey did that to me years ago, like ten years or so. Took me weeks to figure out the site wasn't slow when logged out! They don't do it anymore (and thankfully, because if they did it to me now I'd slowloris the hell out of this site).
- chalst 5y ago> I'd slowloris the hell out of this site I think most people who have the technical skill to do this effectively don't telegraph their intentions on what is, to all intents and purposes, social media.