"Dr. Strangelove: Of course, the whole point of a Doomsday Machine is lost, if you keep it a secret! Why didn't you tell the world, EH?" I tend to agree with t

"Dr. Strangelove: Of course, the whole point of a Doomsday Machine is lost, if you keep it a secret! Why didn't you tell the world, EH?" I tend to agree with the subby. Shadowbanning, slowbanning, hellbanning are petty, vicious, and passive aggressive tools. Before you implement them, you should make it clear that the person is treading on thin ice, and why. Yes there are spammers and worse. But the silent treatment and similar is recognized as a form of psychological abuse (remember that in your relationships folks. Someone giving you the silent treatment is abusing you as much as physical abuse is.) So if you're going to implement hellbanning, shadowbanning, slowbanning, I really urge you to implement one or more intermediate steps like + warning + coloring/greying/dimming/shading/collapsing the post + limited time timeouts. Some of us are well meaning, but dumb as dogs, and we need and even deserve to have our errors pointed out to us to help us learn.