"miserable" mode. It was a mod introduced in vbulletin 2 by community members. When installed it extended the idea of banning or shadow banning as it degraded

"miserable" mode. It was a mod introduced in vbulletin 2 by community members. When installed it extended the idea of banning or shadow banning as it degraded the user experience for the person in question. Basically giving the impression that the site was malfunctioning to the point that it was frustrating for the user and they left the site for a while. This included random delays to the page loading, and sending them to a different page and ignoring their intent. https://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=93258 https://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=93258