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Why hellban? What's wrong with a normal ban?

• sneak 14y ago
  Because then they'll know they need to use a different proxy and change the bot behavior to avoid detection.
  • Too 14y ago
    What if you accidentally added a bug in your bot? What if the policy-guard has a bug? What if there's changed robots-policies you didn't have time to keep up with? What if there's an admin with a personal vendetta against some bot? (the three first bullets also show why opt-out is a bad idea, over opt-in) You don't think it would be appropriate to warn the bot-owner about this first? Hellbanning must always be a last resort, not something you throw around as standard procedure for even the smallest misdemeanours. The recent spread of hellbanning on internet forums really is a plague. I've been hellbanned on several sites for no obvious reason at all. On reddit for example it was because their spam-bot detected that i posted two posts containing the same link within too short time -.-