The idea of disabling it is because the administration at that particular board is very leniant on bannings. This way we can take away the problem without me having to rally for a ban and get the other two admins to agree with me. It easily removes the itch, and since this user was a problem to begin with (repeatedly banned and unbanned by the other admins) I figured this was a just punishment since banning was not an option.
Edit: As well I should point out that it is disabled per user, so not everyone was affected, only this one person. You might believe this to be a waste of code, but the only other option was alltogether removing it, and that I see as way too harsh a thing to do. So I wrote my own hack to solve the problem and at the same time test my knowledge of PHP.
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