[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by MrMastodonFarm

Whenever you post the why reply it makes me feel like I'm explaining something to a child.

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Yeah that confirms my opinion of you.

It allows a disruptive poster to continue posting without making any actual disruptions. Judging by the amount of "Lifetime Suspensions" we've seen over the past week, and how obvious it was some of those were returning posters this would allow a guy like Read Only (moon) to continue posting. They'd be blissfully unaware no one is being affected by their annoying posts.

Eventually they might get onto it, but not right away. Look at the situation on the board this week with DOOM, it's a tricky situation. He really wasn't doing anything against the rules, posting an opinion ad nauseam ins't an infraction but the way he was doing it was obviously overly disruptive to the board. A shadowban would let the moderators ban him for a month, whatever, and allow him to continue posting but give the board a cool down from his a-hole behaviour.

I've seen it used well on other boards

I don't see the advantage. If the individual's actions are such that they warrent more than a suspension, just ban them.