The approach does feel a bit out of place here, although it's hard to tell if my view on that is due to "hellbanning" being associated so much in my mind with S

The approach does feel a bit out of place here, although it's hard to tell if my view on that is due to "hellbanning" being associated so much in my mind with SomethingAwful. I'm not sure if they invented it, but afaik they're responsible for popularizing it in the late 1990s. It seems to fit their forum-management culture: dealing with trolls by coming up with various ways to, in effect, counter-troll them, some of them more lighthearted/prankish and others more insidious. I was quite surprised to find it here, since the culture here doesn't seem very similar to SA's.