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What kinds of things from reddit would you like to see Lemmy avoid as the user base grows? (lemmy.fmhy.ml)

submitted 2 years ago by gronapa@lemmy.fmhy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Personally I think not having karma limits is nice currently! I understand why they were used but grinding karma as a lurker on reddit was frustrating.

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[-] UsernameLost@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago

I never understood shadow banning. Just IP ban if you really don't want that user coming back

[-] RedWizard@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 2 years ago

It's not about making the user leave, because of they know they are banned they'll try to evade. Shadow banning gives the desired effect while not tipping off the user. So they post away, to nobody.

[-] ArtVandelay@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

The original use case for Shadow banning was bots I think. To them it looks like they're comments are still being posted, but everyone else it's invisible.

[-] thebestlettuce 1 points 2 years ago

Which makes sense, I imagine if I was shadow banned i would realize pretty quick. But it's not easy to have a bot realize they are shadow banned

[-] Aganim@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

IP banning is such an annoyance if you are unlucky enough to only be able to deal with ISPs that do not use fixed IP addresses.

"Can't post today, because another random person got my IP 'du jour' banned in the past" is a pretty terrible user experience.

And the pro troll uses Tor or a VPN and only needs to reconnect his client to receive a fresh IP address. I consider IP banning to be a very mediocre tool at best.

this post was submitted on 11 Jun 2023

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