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Stop shadowbanning users
Yes. It's a guaranteed way to alienate potentially good but new users, and does nothing to discourage people who are determined to break the site's rules.
If you want to correct undesirable behavior automatically, find a way to detect it and have the automation reverse the offending actions (e.g., participating in brigading) and send a message to the user informing them what they did wrong, which posts, comments, or votes were deleted, and how to prevent it from happening in the future.
Removing people from participation without even telling them makes for an absolutely awful user experience. Seriously, who thought this was a good idea? What kind of way is that to treat your site's users and content creators? It's just going to drive users somewhere else--after they've potentially spent months making posts and finally figure out they've been shadowbanned.
There's nothing here!