Good question. Research suggests providing removal explanations [on posts] results in less work for mods [1]. And more research into reddit moderation is on the

Good question. Research suggests providing removal explanations [on posts] results in less work for mods [1]. And more research into reddit moderation is on the way [2]. The first time silent removals were discussed on reddit was apparently in 2007, > "A better idea is a silent ban. Let him post comments" [3] (found via [3.a]) In 2010 reddit's CTO said he supports silent bans [4] after a blogger discovered they had been silently banned. And the CEO in 2017 said it was necessary [5], then in 2018 said, > If we knew everything everything we know today about spam, enforcement, and transparency, we probably wouldn’t build shadow-banning. It’s use is really limited to spam, and I think the downsides (false positives, lack of transparency) outweigh the benefits. > That said, it was useful in the early days when spam was more of an arms race, we didn’t have moderators or reporting, and our content policy was limited to spam. [6] [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/duwdco/should_moderators_provide_removal_explanations/f79o1yr/ https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/duwdco/should_mode... [2] https://www.reddit.com/r/changemyview/comments/tk7xl1/meta_collaboration_with_uiucsocialspaces/ https://www.reddit.com/r/changemyview/comments/tk7xl1/meta_c... [3] https://web.archive.org/web/20070604141333/http://reddit.com/info/1vcyp/comments https://web.archive.org/web/20070604141333/http://reddit.com... [3.a] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20647592#20650370 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20647592#20650370 [4] https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/bbc58/silently_banned_from_reddit/c0lyada/?context=1 https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/bbc58/silently_... [5] https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/5q4qmg/out_with_2016_in_with_2017/dcwclze/?context=3 https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/5q4qmg/out_w... [6] https://www.reddit.com/r/TheoryOfReddit/comments/8k5qh3/if_you_created_a_reddittype_website_would_you/dz52mbb/?context=3 https://www.reddit.com/r/TheoryOfReddit/comments/8k5qh3/if_y...