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The reason for a shadowban is to stop spam bots. If you tell them how they're getting caught the spam bots get better at dodging bans and reddit gets worse at not having spam.
It's a balancing act. It will be hard for the admins to make good on the 'no more shadowbanning real users' promise, but hopefully they're making an honest effort. I think they are... but I'm naive.
Comment by kekforever at 13/08/2015 at 16:48 UTC
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they aren't. i was shadowbanned for pissing people off in 2x just a few days before this announcment. even at a glance it was beyond obvious i was not a spam bot in any way. they are using this tool to silence people they don't like