About that r/LSAT Shadow Ban (Ep. 445)
Thinking LSAT
Nathan Fox and Ben Olson
4.8 • 868 Ratings
🗓️ 11 March 2024
⏱️ 66 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Love it or hate it, the r/LSAT subreddit is a popular forum for LSAT news and advice. Unfortunately, LSAT Demon students have been unable to engage fully with this community for almost a year. Their posts and comments about the Demon are secretly banned. Ben and Nathan recount the curious back story of LSAT Demon’s shadow ban on Reddit and ask for listeners’ advice. Later, the guys discuss upcoming changes to LSAT Writing. They share tips on becoming a gladiator of the English language. And they examine why some lawyers might be better off working in fast food.
1:11 - Reddit Shadow Ban - The guys detail LSAT Demon’s shadow ban on the r/LSAT subreddit. Read more in their blog post and share your thoughts at [email protected].
14:19 - Changes to LSAT Writing - Big changes are coming to LSAT Writing. Starting July 31, 2024, the section will feature a more open-ended essay prompt that asks writers to defend an original thesis. Ben and Nathan weigh in on the upcoming changes.
20:18 - Improving at English - Lawyers are gladiators of the English language. Nathan and Ben share a few tips on how to improve your reading and writing.
31:22 - Pearls vs. Turds - Despite what some LSAT “experts” say, there are no shortcuts to success in LSAT Reading Comprehension. If you want to improve in RC, you must improve your ability to read.
39:54 - Law vs. Fast Food - Not every lawyer makes big law money. But lawyers at least earn more than fast-food workers, right? Not necessarily.
46:49 - Informational Interviews - Ben and Nathan advise listener Michael on how to solicit and conduct informational interviews with practicing lawyers.
52:07 - Focus on Accuracy - Listener Grace faces challenges in transitioning to the LSAT Demon approach after switching from another prep company. Nathan and Ben encourage Grace to stick with it and to prioritize accuracy over section scores.
56:18 - Tips from a Departing Demon - LSAT Demon student Nick shares a pearl of wisdom: “Don’t tell everyone you know that you are taking the LSAT.”
1:01:14 - Word of the Week - If law schools would put the kibosh on their unfair pricing schemes, Ben and Nathan wouldn’t have to inveigh against them.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | So what's happening now is legitimate predators are going, you know, they have a great experience with |
| 0:05.8 | Elset Demon, they want to go post their experience on R slash Elsat. They post it and it gives them the impression that they are posting about |
| 0:14.6 | El sat human and then just no other user ever sees it so it's like this secret |
| 0:19.0 | shadowy thing. of the Thinking Elsat podcast. I'm Nathan Fox and with me is Ben Olson. |
| 0:33.4 | We're the co-founder of Elsat Demon.com and the Elsat Demon Daily podcast. |
| 0:37.4 | You can be Elsat famous by sharing news or asking questions on our website thinking |
| 0:41.7 | elseat.com. We have a free class coming up. |
| 0:45.0 | We hope you all will join. |
| 0:46.8 | It's one of our most popular teachers by far. |
| 0:50.8 | Chris is teaching a class on March 18th, |
| 0:53.4 | 430 Pacific, 730 Eastern. |
| 0:57.1 | The class is called the final passage. |
| 0:59.4 | It's a high level reading comprehension class. |
| 1:03.0 | Everybody loves it. |
| 1:04.0 | Everybody loves Chris. |
| 1:05.3 | Please sign up for that class. |
| 1:06.9 | El sat demon.com forward slash free to sign up. |
| 1:11.8 | We're gonna start with a plea for some help and advice from our audience. We have this weird |
| 1:17.4 | thing going on on on Reddit that we just don't understand. We've been trying to figure it out for like a year internally and finally we're just going to ask you guys for help but it looks like positive comments about the demon are being deleted and even Shadow Band. |
| 1:33.0 | I didn't know what a Shadow Band was before we started talking about this stuff, |
| 1:37.0 | but Ben, why don't you talk about this a little bit? |
| 1:40.0 | Because right now, apparently people are not allowed to say nice things about |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Nathan Fox and Ben Olson, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Nathan Fox and Ben Olson and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.