A hell ban is a colloquial term for a ban that prevents the user from knowing that they’re banned; their comments appear as normal to themselves, but are invisible to everyone else.
It’s designed so that the person so afflicted doesn’t notice they’ve been banned. It has a striking limitation, however; it doesn’t work on people who have alternate accounts who regularly, ahem, go look at their main accounts comments, since they’ll see that their comments aren’t there.
A hell ban is a colloquial term for a ban that prevents the user from knowing that they’re banned; their comments appear as normal to themselves, but are invisible to everyone else.
It’s designed so that the person so afflicted doesn’t notice they’ve been banned. It has a striking limitation, however; it doesn’t work on people who have alternate accounts who regularly, ahem, go look at their main accounts comments, since they’ll see that their comments aren’t there.
It doesn’t even work on people who occasionally look at the forums while not logged in.