The original intent of shadow banning was to prevent spam bots from being able to detect they were banned and just spin up a new account. In that context, not letting them learn from the banning was a deliberate feature. The issue is that shadow banning has long since escaped its original scope and is regularly applied to real users.

I see. I guess it's a matter of why this happened and why companies aren't fixing it. Or maybe I just don't understand corporate decisions.

Nowadays even users do this

Didn't you ever want to add a comment here then discover you can't because the user block you ?
It happen to me and it's even more frustrating that it's not an algorithm that do this but a user.
If FA was better, there will at least disable the reply button but you have to hit the add reply and have lost time to know.

But it's not even the main problem, as you say you don't know what you were blocked as they not even told you what was the problem.

So some block me but I don't know why.

I thank the one that told me "don't post thing like this it's offending" even if weird, I know she was upset, and could tell as FA is full of hot things I can't remember she don't like the type of comment I made and ask to add me in her block list
I think weird offence because I "just" add a comment under a drawing of 2 hot werewolf tied one exposing a leaky butt hole "I'd like to add some lube"

Block is stupid on DA too, because it prevent you to display the content but you still get notification when this person post art in a group and can't see what he replied to anybody.

At the prehistoric time of internet, 10 years ago they were forums that allow people to talk, argue, have some bad word but can explain together, and if one go too far no matter what this was about, you have human moderator, that was users too and act as referee with yellow and red card. Only few people was ban and a lot explain .

That is all good, until you are honest and tell you don't like something, only to have an army of fanboys attack you and your replies for being 'negative' and 'attacking' that person.

That's the sad truth with social media or close knitted community. Disagree with the mass or a member of the mass, and you'll get burned. Why people Shadow ban. Not to deal with a person and their followers.

But lapub and Dragoniade, that's blocking. I don't care if someone blocks me. It's their choice. While I try to do it with prudence, I'm guilty of blocking too. I'm not talking about individual users here, I'm talking about giant social media companies who should be impartial with their justice. A penalty should never be done in secret.

That's akin to standing in a crowd and the leader found something they think you did wrong and secretly made you invisible. Thus, no matter what you do, no one can hear or see you, and you have no idea what you did wrong. It's a terrible feeling.

Many years ago, I once had a Yahoo Answers account that got suspended. But they told me why. I could learn from it. Shadow banning does not have this. It's unjust.

I can only agree, banning a unique individual should always come with explanation towards that individual.

(Difficulties there being bots and cases of flooding including advertising, generating such traffic that it is no longer practical and like Stapaprutu mentioned, not advisable)

Banning I feel should really be a last-resort action. If nothing else works, not even trying to talk with the individual over private notes, so, like clearly inappropriate, malicious intent, and making a mess out of it.

At any rate, first try to raise the attention of the offending individual, (s)he might not even realize what (s)he was writing was inappropriate the first place, and might even delete the post him/herself with an "Oh, dang, sorry!" if so. There are just so many ways this can happen, inadvertently blurting out something which shouldn't have been after all!

Yeah, you would think that would be the right thing to do.