Re: YASID "Sci-fi Books, Humans with Animal genes/modifications?"

In article <utifil$2g3jt$1@dont-email.me>,
Robert Carnegie  <rja.carnegie@gmail.com> wrote:

I've been banned on other forums without
being told that no one was seeing my
contributions.  That's unjustified.

I can see a case where this would be justified:  A spammer,
or a particularly pernicious troll.  Just to (hopefully)
delay them switching to yet another throw-away account.

Not accusing you of falling into this category at all;
this is just a situation where I've thought "shadowbanning"
would be justified.  Perhaps including "Panopticlick" type
PC identification for particularly pernicious ones who
keep creating new accounts to get around a justified ban.

Like I said, for spamming, pernicious trolling, or repeatedly
creating new accounts to get around a ban, not for "has an
opinion that differs from the host" cases.

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