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Shadow Bans Only Fool Humans, Not Bots
- randycupertino 3y agoInteresting look at how platforms have historically argued they need shadowbans to rein-in bot-produced spam. However, shadowbans don't fool bots, they only fool humans. So in the end, shadow bans benefit bots and trolls who know to look for them, while demoting content from good-faith actors who don't conceive of shadowbans.
- herbst 3y agoOn the same note it's less work to implement a anti captcha API than solving an actual captcha by hand at this point