WayOfTheBern using reddit shadow banning on saidit

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[–]bucetao6969 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (8 children)

I don't know if this is true or not, but it would be pretty shitty carry over shadow bans from reddit to saidit.

Moreover, shadowbans are shitty in general. Does this system exist in Saidit?

[–]Vulptex 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (7 children)

Automoderator has always been able to shadowban on a sub-specific basis.

Since saidit is a fork of reddit the sitewide shadowban system does exist. There's no way to use it at the moment however. But I am fairly confident that if it ever does get enabled it will only be used against spam accounts, and potentially in extreme cases where a user keeps making alts after every single ban.

[–]0_0 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

No mod can shadowban another user in the traditional way. What they can do is make a bot to automatically delete the post from certain users.

[–]Vulptex 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

That's what a shadowban is. At least on reddit/saidit.

[–]0_0 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Apparently this is the case. I've always thought of shadowbaning as being added to a sitewide blacklist by reddit itself or maybe getting your comments deleted by a rule from automoderator that targets a specific user since it's a special bot that pre filters everything before it even shows up in the API a regular bot would use. Honestly I didn't even know this old branch of reddit had automoderator.

[–]bucetao6969 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Shadowban from what I understand is being banned without knowing. You can interact with the community as if you weren't banned, but your votes won't count and your comments won't show up. But you feel like you are still participating.

Shadowban on reddit was apparently global on certain scenarios because there was a sub to test if you were shadowbanned.

I don't know how this global shadowban worked because from time to time I got messages from certain communities saying I was auto-banned from there for engaging in another community.

[–]bucetao6969 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Is this kind of system allowed?

Also does the user know his comment was deleted?

[–]Vulptex 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The user does not know

[–]Dragonerne[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

No. I was posting for days apparently and had my comments secretly removed. I found out today