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Originally posted by Arathorn
Just to be clear, this hack basically puts a certain username in torture mode. Instead of banning him, you let him in and toy with him. But what's to prevent the user from re-registering yet again and escaping the hellban? Or does this hack somehow detect that?

He hack is meant for the idiots that just keep re-registering even though they are banned over and over again due to their idiotic behavior. Toying or torture has nothing to do with it.

There is nothing to prevent the user from re-registering, and I don't think there ever will be, as the use can just delete the vbulletin cookie, EXCEPT for the fact that he might not be aware of hellban, unlike the standard ban.

This hack is meant to be silent (i.e. the banned used is unaware of it), and only meant for extreme troublemakers. It's meant to make terrorizing the forums a much less pleasureable experience (i.e. annoying error messages and no responses to his flamebaits). Some may discover that they are being fooled, but some (hopefully) will simply be bored and walk away.