Wikipedia talk:Articles for deletion/Shadowban


 * Keep - Does anyone contest the existence of the "shadowban"? It's a veritable phenomenon, popularized mostly by disgruntled users of Fark.com, especially those who owned a paid subscription.  Shadowbans are, simply put, when forum administration chooses to "hide" comments made by certain users unbeknownst to the shadowbanned user.  Shadowban-ees are free to post comments at will, except that no one else (besides the moderation/admin staff) will actually see them.  This method is particularly frowned upon by the Internet community mostly because of its disenguousness.  Also, this method gained particular notoriety on Fark.com because paid members ("Totalfarkers") were unwittingly paying to post comments that no one else could see.

There is no reason not to include this very real phenomenon, save for special interests.


 * Keep if you want Wikipedia to have integrity: It's been 7 years since the original discussion. Shadowbanning is a common enough practice now to warrant an entry in Wikipedia. Reddit is the #1 news site in the world according to Alexa, and it shadowbans. Another popular site that shadowbans is Tumblr. A Google search of "shadowban" returns 30,700 results. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.222.89.125 (talk) 05:35, 12 June 2014 (UTC)