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kleinbl00 · 3453 days ago · link · · parent · post: If this is the beginning of the end for Reddit, then Reddit deserves to die
The fundamental problem is that Reddit's workings are gnostic by design. "Shadowban" is a horrible concept from the get-go - "my anti-spam measures will be so much more effective if the spammers don't know they're in place." Essentially, Reddit's countermeasures are so shitty that if people knew what they were they'd be useless. Know my most effective fascist automoderator tweak? Require all posts to come from someone with two comment karma or better. Which takes essentially zero effort for anyone actually on Reddit, but is literally impossible from within Hootsuite. Looks like we're oppressing new users, when in fact we're cutting out 50 spam posts an hour.