Yeah, if I'm understanding this isn't remotely new or novel? It's been a standard script kiddy attack since basically there were publication services where you

Yeah, if I'm understanding this isn't remotely new or novel? It's been a standard script kiddy attack since basically there were publication services where you could be banned/blocked/whatever by automated systems. Early blogs were frequent victims, surely earlier stuff was as well? Probably even basic BBSs had similar nonsense.