autoban

English

Etymology

From auto- +‎ ban.

Noun

autoban (plural autobans)

1. An automatic ban; a ban administered automatically.
   • 2015 October 30, Brady Dale, “Posting on GamerGate’s Subreddit Gets Users Automatically Banned on Others”, in The Observer‎^[1]:

     The Observer discovered the autoban while reporting a story on threats to SXSW this week, writing a post on Kotaku In Action, and noticed the following warning (the warning remains live).

Verb

autoban (third-person singular simple present autobans, present participle autobanning, simple past and past participle autobanned)

1. (transitive) To ban automatically.

   Users who vandalize the site will be autobanned.

   • 2015 October 30, Brady Dale, “Posting on GamerGate’s Subreddit Gets Users Automatically Banned on Others”, in The Observer‎^[2]:

     Yet, rather than enter into the decision to autoban certain subreddits quickly, the /r/Rape mods explained they had a meeting to discuss the option after repeated spikes in abuse.