You're lucky, some people don't find out for months, or years. Of course, actual trolls just make puppet accounts and bots can't be properly humiliated.
But I suppose that is the price we must pay for intellectual purity.
You need more reputation to be able to downvote.
I don't think that @unethical_ban is talking about downvoting the comments, but downvoting the submission itself. There is no "downvote" option for submissions, only upvote and flag.
Re:Echochamber.js
by unethical_ban on Tuesday July 14, 2015 @10:29PM
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oh no, I was talking about comments. And the parent is right, it comes along once you have enough karma.
> And the parent is right, it comes along once you have enough karma.
Yes, but only for comments, not for article submissions.
Let's start by saying: cool, it's satire, and learning technologies through novel applications is the heart of hacking. I ain't even mad.
But no, shadowbanning is not cool. It was originally for spammers, not for real people you don't like. It's inconsiderate, because if effective, it wastes peoples' time writing comments they think people can read. Comments they believe contribute to the conversation. And it's not cool.
And to be clear to jMyles: This is trickery.
Disclaimer: I was shadowbanned many moons ago (hence the name now) for one comment out of hundreds I'd made on this site. That one comment was rude and terse, but not something unequivocally hateful or harmful. For that, I posted for weeks without knowing my comments re: the technologies and news I care about were being blocked. It's not cool.