In a move that isn't particularly surprising given their lack of support for intellectual diversity to date, Reddit has introduced outright bans to replace its shadow banning policy.
Reddit has introduced an "Account Suspension" feature that will replace Shadowbanning for non-spammers, though previously shadowbanned accounts are not going to be automatically unbanned.
A post on July 28, 2015 by Reddit admin /u/krispykrackers explains the basics of Shadowbanning, a tool initially created to counteract spammers by hiding their content without letting them know their account had been shadowbanned. However, this was Reddit's only tool for an account-wide ban, and it has since been used on people other than spammers as well.
Account Suspension will be more straightforward and transparent than a Shadowban. An F.A.Q. page (sic) linked in the announcement post states that only Reddit administrators will be able to apply suspensions, which can be temporary or permanent. Permanent suspensions will result in a message about the account's status being added to that account's userpage.
See, I'm a veteran. This means I was willing to take a bullet for the right of my countrymen to speak their minds. On this at least I have not mellowed as I've aged. My personal line in the sand is that we will never site ban for anything but over-the-top spamming or gross/repeated illegal activity while I am on staff. See my journal if you feel the need for that last statement to be expounded upon.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by jdavidb on Thursday November 12 2015, @06:01PM
Seriously, who gives a crap how Reddit moderates?
Well, it's somewhat interesting to talk about, at least for a little while, at least for me. It's their site to do as they wish, though. Most of the people over here want to be able to say whatever, and most of us feel the site is better for it.
When I've taken a look at reddit they seem to have lots of subforums run by users, so I'm thinking each of those subforums might be better if the ones running it could decide on their own moderation policy. Then if you don't like it, you can go start another. That's how newsgroups worked back in the day, and I thought usenet was the better for it.
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