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What is your opinion of shadowing posts and threads on forums?

by user name 666
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This does relate to internet marketing since many of us care about back links and general exposure to our content.

Reddit, Topix, and Craigslist are a few websites which are notorious for this.

as a reminder, this is when it appears to you that your content posted to the forum when in fact no one else can see it.

Why should a user have to waste time on a website that does this, shouldn't they be told they're just not welcome on the site anymore and ban their IP or something?


Do you know of any other sites not mentioned where moderators do this a lot?
- or, if its automatically done by the spam filtering system - that is probably more common!
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  • Profile picture of the author CDarklock
    Originally Posted by user name 666 View Post

    Why should a user have to waste time on a website that does this
    Because they want you to waste your time. They are basically performing a public service on the grounds that while you are pointlessly spamming THEIR site, you are not pointlessly spamming some OTHER site.

    This doesn't happen to normal people. If it is happening to you, it is because you suck and nobody likes you.
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    • Profile picture of the author user name 666
      Originally Posted by CDarklock View Post

      Because they want you to waste your time. They are basically performing a public service on the grounds that while you are pointlessly spamming THEIR site, you are not pointlessly spamming some OTHER site.

      This doesn't happen to normal people. If it is happening to you, it is because you suck and nobody likes you.
      I already pointed out that someone can automatically get banned from sites like Craigslist without a moderator making a decision to do so - robots are not experts at detecting what is spam, and what isn't.

      This does happen to normal people from time to time.
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  • Profile picture of the author iAmNameLess
    It happens regularly at craigslist, I have always heard of it as ghosting instead of shadowing. It is automated and a variety of reasons why it happens.

    It isn't always permanent on craigslist either. You can have an ad ghosted because it was previously flagged and you're reposting it. Sometimes they will ghost certain URLs posted in the ad.
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