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You could also display another version to the troll than to other users where the troll sees the forum as if his posts are successfully submitted while the rest
by VMG 16y ago
You could also display another version to the troll than to other users where the troll sees the forum as if his posts are successfully submitted while the rest doesn't see the postings.
- joemi 16y agoI'm really intrigued by this idea... Does anyone know of anywhere that's actually tried this?
- EliAndrewC 16y agoThey do this on the SomethingAwful forums, it's referred to as hellbanning, though I'm not sure if the term originated there: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=hellban http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=hellban
- paragraft 16y agoThey were later removed because they cause difficulties in performance optimization. They're hard to implement consistently and correctly (i.e, so things like post counts for each thread etc add up correctly for the hellbanned user) without blowing performance out of the water for the general case.