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Given that the comment/post timer applies to new, unverified accounts, and there is the subreddit filter that can be set to high in subs, it's more of a hassle creating a new account for spam purposes than you think.
Sure it's a workaround but it's an annoying one for spammers.
Comment by PadaV4 at 05/08/2015 at 21:46 UTC
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Well than why not just outright block the spammers instead of shadowban? Spammers would know that they need to ckeck for shadowbans, and could easily write a script to test for shadowbans after every single post they make. The only ones who could be fooled by shadowbans would be normal reddit users, not aware of such thing, or naive enough to think they wont ever be affected.
Comment by Zezombye at 06/08/2015 at 08:21 UTC
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Given that the comment/post timer applies to new, unverified accounts, and there is the subreddit filter that can be set to high in subs, it's more of a hassle creating a new account for spam purposes than you think.
Sure it's a workaround but it's an annoying one for spammers.
Yep. But what a shadowban does is secretly banning. Before, they just banned the spammers, and when they tried to post, there were a message saying that they were banned. So spammers made their bots so that when they're banned, they create a new account. Shadowban was created, so that bots don't know they're banned, and therefore don't create another account.
But as of now, the shadowban is as useful as a regular ban.