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View submission: Announcing the Crowd Control Beta
New user in this instance is new accounts.
So you're literally going to discourage people to participate in subreddits...
wow. I hope you have money for what you're doing, because data collection is going to drop dramatically after that - users aren't going to leave, but new users certainly are, after seeing that they default existence mode is shadowban...
Comment by redtaboo at 10/12/2019 at 21:35 UTC
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I think what may be being missed here is that there are different strictness levels that moderators can set depending on the use case for their community, not all of which collapse comments from new users - and moderators can choose whether or not to even turn this on in their communities. We don't anticipate all mods finding this tool useful to their communities, our hope is that it will be useful to a subset of communities that are more vulnerable to harassment and the like.
From there we'll be adding functionality in the future where mods can turn it on on a per thread basis. This is also a beta - so we hope to get more feedback on the different settings and how well they work in different types of communities. :)
Comment by FreeSpeechWarrior at 10/12/2019 at 21:30 UTC
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It's still not clear that the affected contributors are even made aware of this.
If that's the case it's not really discouraging people from participating, it's deceiving them into thinking they are treated on equal terms.