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Why do websites shadowban people giving them the illusion their posts are being seen when they're not?

I think that's pretty cruel.
Miram · 31-35, F
It is hilarious.

Why should they care about the feelings of those that break their TOS?

They aren't paid to be a shrink.
SinlessOnslaught · 26-30, M
@Miram Also I agree it drives me crazy when people use mental illness as an excuse for stuff. I literally have psychosis and I cringe whenever someone describes a criminal or a horrible person as "psychotic".
Miram · 31-35, F
@SinlessOnslaught yeah, it adds to the stigma. Us mentally ill peeps are capable of drawing sound judgement and being responsible for our decisions. It's up to a professional to decide otherwise not randoms.

It's people who have no mental disabilities nor illnesses who make up most of the criminal population
SinlessOnslaught · 26-30, M
@Miram Exactly. And I can't tell people that I'm mentally ill without being made fun of for it, or just ignored and ostracized, but whenever I mention that, people are like, "Oh stop being such a sensitive snowflake. EVERYTHING is offensive these days".
StevetheSleeve · 31-35, M
So they can remove objectionable comments without having to deal with a hissy fit from the poster.
ABCDEF7 · M
Because they don't have any legit reason falling under legal ToS that they can openly say.
SteelHands · 61-69, M
OK. So vam pyr decided that rather than debate me to tuck tail and pull his censorship block out.

If you're not equipped to debate someone or feel they're unworthy to debate with you owe it to the audience to speak up and admit that you're not debating.

Not pretend that you're debating behind a pinko communist method of illusion making.

Coward.
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SW-User
[c=004A59]I haven't heard of this practice. It sounds like a terrible idea. Part of the point of banning someone from a website, is to teach better behavior. If they don't tell someone what they're doing wrong, how the Hell do they expect them to learn and change?[/c]
SteelHands · 61-69, M
@SW-User I disagree and will explain why at the footnote of this reaction. I hope you have long pondered your view and strongly hold that view as I look forward to dismantling that view in my usual logical way. And then hopefully you will point out any error in my logic so that I will be better informed by the conclusion of anything we both have to say.

Since you didn't know about the various manipulations and machinations used by webmasters to propogate their mostly ill founded beliefs I will inform you that the shadow banning aspect even has a variety of levels. It is not banning a person altogether, and often done without the one it's being used on without anyone's awareness.

There are also other means that infringe communication between opinion sharing people. De-boosting posts with certain keywords and phrases from search results, for example. De-boosting can be done in conjunction with specific user profiles or across the board in results in search engines. Think of it as the opposite of keyword spamming, if you understand the many ways that is done. Text is in the page and made invisible to the reader yet acts as a qualifier in a collection of search results. De-boosting works like that and while the text is legible the web crawler is instructed by an if 'x is true' then 'limit y' to drop that result from ever appearing in a search result. So if a big search engine or a social site doesn't like you, and they probably won't if you disagree with their very public tyrannical policies, your name attached web publications will never be found in the top 500 results of their searches no matter if you have 10 informal fans detailing a very specific search or a million subscribers merely searching on your name. That's a ton of public related power and nobody in their sane mind would do that. Which means that there are some insane people in charge of big parts of the internet, by my way of thinking.


This also makes Google a publisher and a communications host and a odd form of governing body over humankind. That they don't yet recognize they have overlooked that with great power comes accountability means that they have already sealed a fate for themselves that nobody should envy.

Nuff said on that. Now to address your specific comment. I think it's wholly incorrect at best and at worst, typical megalomaniacal thought processing. Even God doesn't make bad manners a sin.

The web isn't a church or a moral teacher. If the other users avoid contact with or block a problamatic person, troll, or bully that bad example can serve as a lesson to younger members where the actual threshold of acceptable conduct exits the,so to speak ok to do, and enters the, shitposted by an idiot, gray.

Good manners are not something taught but something society learns through the human motive of positive results through observation. By imitating or replicating positive conducts we construct positive transactional results.

Brute force, while it temporarily serves the short life of slaves and their masters never gave anyone positive results or a good demeanor.
adorbz · 26-30, F
Nah its brilliant
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adorbz · 26-30, F
@Resurrection2021 so you'd rather they just get normally banned? And immediately come back to troll. Or just not ban anyone at all? And drive away all the people actually using the site properly.
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SteelHands · 61-69, M
New age nanny mindset power lust.
Bang5luts · M
Lol. Admins troll to! That's why they need an auditor!
@Bang5luts no they need a unionized SW,
Craigslist needs that too. wont hold my breath though
“Shadowban” ? I’m not familiar with that term.
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