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like the reddit "shadowban", where your comment isn't shown to others but is visible to you in the thread.

fudge the up/down votes to make it look like it's been seen but not reacted to.

but do you need to burn cycles on AI to keep these people engaged? if someone is spamming stuff you don't want seen have them throw out a basic response and then shadowban or just straight-up ban them. if they're very negative bad actor types just give em the boot