Shadow-banned means that your comments are invisible to others and you aren’t told about that fact.
I admit that even if users are told that their comments are invisible, some users might fail to notice. But it can be made very clear, maybe they have to click a warning before they see the commenting text-area.
I don’t post on LessWrong much but I would much rather be explicitly rate-limited than shadow-banned, if content I was posting needed to be moderated.
Shadow-banned means that your comments are invisible to others and you aren’t told about that fact.
I admit that even if users are told that their comments are invisible, some users might fail to notice. But it can be made very clear, maybe they have to click a warning before they see the commenting text-area.