I'm not sure if the same applies here, but I believe Voat had the right idea in banning People only if they'd broken the TOS,and maybe in some other edge cases. Bans in my opinion should be used sparingly, and the boned user should always be notified (no shadow banning).
The users base did a pretty good job in the beginning of using their downvotes to stop any spam (or in certain subs, dissenting opinions), but the beauty of that is it was still available to be seen if someone wanted to. No rows upon rows of [DELETED].
Just wanted to put that out there, would love to hear all your thoughts on this matter.
I've never thought of it that way. I'm tempted to say Reddit wouldn't do something like that, but it really does make sense, even if it wasn't their primary goal.