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Shadow Bans Only Fool Humans, Not Bots
- rideontime 3y agoThis article claims that Reddit moderators are able to shadowban users. Is that accurate? I'm not finding any evidence to back up that claim.
- Ukv 3y agoWith automod rules you can set it up so a user's posts are filtered (hidden for everyone else), and then never review the posts to approve/fully delete them.
- rhaksw 3y agoIt was in the official docs: > Often, it may be advantageous to shadowban a troll or spammer rather than ban them - an actual ban simply tells them that it's time to create a new account. With a shadowban, they don't know they've been banned. [1] They've since renamed that to a "bot ban", but the effect is the same. Anyway, all comment removals on Reddit are shadow banned by default. You can try it yourself by commenting in r/CantSayAnything [2]. Your comment will be removed, you won't receive any notification, and it will still appear to you as if it's not removed. [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/AutoModerator/wiki/library?v=acf57c63-a777-11ea-968c-0e74c30ff64f&utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=usertext&utm_name=centrist&utm_content=t1_kg2dw7e#wiki_user_shadowban_list https://www.reddit.com/r/AutoModerator/wiki/library?v=acf57c... [2] https://old.reddit.com/r/CantSayAnything/about/sticky https://old.reddit.com/r/CantSayAnything/about/sticky
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- toomuchtodo 3y agoIt's accurate. Comment shows up to the user, doesn't show up to everyone else. I wrote some code for someone where it alerts them if a comment they post is shadowbanned (compares their comment/post history to what others can see). Might scale it up when time permits with a browser extension.
- rhaksw 3y ago> a browser extension. Already exists, but feel free to upgrade or make your own: https://github.com/reveddit/real-time-extension https://github.com/reveddit/real-time-extension
- toomuchtodo 3y agoAppreciate you!