Something Awful was "hellbanning" people ages ago. Some discussion here: https://blog.codinghorror.com/suspension-ban-or-hellban/ https://blog.codinghorror.com

Something Awful was "hellbanning" people ages ago. Some discussion here: https://blog.codinghorror.com/suspension-ban-or-hellban/ https://blog.codinghorror.com/suspension-ban-or-hellban/ Links to Metafilter discussion here: https://ask.metafilter.com/117775/What-was-the-first-website-to-hide-trolls-activity-to-everyone-but-the-troll-himself https://ask.metafilter.com/117775/What-was-the-first-website... > On the Citadel BBSes I frequented in the late '80s, it was referred to as the "twit bit", and the disliked user would sometimes be said to have been "twitted".