This isn't really news. Reddit does do 'shadow-bans' in the case of egregious spammers. Moderators are soon going to be able to do temporary, sub-reddit specif

This isn't really news. Reddit does do 'shadow-bans' in the case of egregious spammers. Moderators are soon going to be able to do temporary, sub-reddit specific shadowbans as well. Looking at his account (http://www.reddit.com/user/MarkDennehy/submitted/ http://www.reddit.com/user/MarkDennehy/submitted/), he looks like a spammer. He only submits links to his own sites, and rarely comments. Scrolling down through his submission history, I can see (for the subreddits I moderate, such as /r/business), that his submissions have an incredibly high rate of spam-filter failure (meaning that they get caught by the automated spam filter and never shown.) This is because they look like spam. The point of Reddit is to submit interesting and informative links, as well as participate in discourse; not repeatedly submit your own articles to as many subreddits as possible. If you look like a spammer, and talk like a spammer... well....