> And you had to really work to get a ban in most forums and IRC channels. You had to really step out of line - and continue stepping out of line. I disagree w

> And you had to really work to get a ban in most forums and IRC channels. You had to really step out of line - and continue stepping out of line. I disagree with this. It was easy to get kicked out of a channel for just being kinda annoying, and then if the mods just didn't like you they can just ban you. Also, like I said, it was normal to channel-ban (i.e. pre-emptively prevent any members from a channel to join yours) notorious channels. Also yeah I would also kick people talking about "men are not women" just for being off-topic in my channel, which was about computer builds lol. If someone got kicked for being off-topic and came back and continued to be that way they got a ban for being annoying. It was super common to just ban vaguely annoying people.