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From Encyclopedia Dramatica

The ultimate in message board and LJ pwnage. To be perma-banned is to be permanently banned, usually from a channel in IRC or some other access-restrictable resource on the internets. Being permabanned from a website is basically getting your digital ass handed to you by the powers that be. You managed to do something so monumentally stupid that the site's admin decided to actually go to the trouble of making sure that you never, ever have access to their little domain ever again. They rolled up the clubhouse's ladder, changed the secret password, and probably even told all their OL friends that you are nothing but a big poopy head.

Unfortunately, real permabans are extremely rare on the internets. The stupid, irrational and humorless (that's 90% of the internet population) will treat any IP ban, account ban, email address ban or any other form of access restriction as the epitome of internet justice while remaining oblivious and ignorant to the fact that such bans are negated within seconds. Should a troll be banned from a certain place and has the will to continue to disrupt that place's regular actions, he will dodge the "ban" in a minute. Such knowledge of ban-dodging is well-hidden within most trolling organizations' archives and are never revealed to the public, for the stupid, irrational and humorless will perceive such knowledge as an A+ way to pwn the internets. However, that is not perceived the same way by the troll, who considers ban-dodging a perfectly legitimate way to continue his actions.

True permabans, as opposed to false permabans, occur on those places a person cannot regain access to without doing something as mundane as changing their IP or registering a new account. Such bans are most common in online games where a CD-key, an account or something else that costs RL money is at risk. Therefore, all Something Awful forum bans are indeed true permabans unless someone wants to give Lowtax another ten dollars so he can get laid with an AIDS-infected male prostitute.

Note: When you dodge a ban, a particularly stupid admin may think you're a hacker. True story.

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[edit] Examples of IRL Perma-bans

• Hitler perma-banned the Jews from non-concentrated Germany, and in most cases, also from life.
• A sting ray perma-banned Steve Irwin for the lulz.
• Raptor Jesus is said to perma-ban all sinners from heaven on the rapture.
• AIDS has been very prolific IRL admin, and an asshole at that; AIDS is said to have perma-banned over 9000 people. Mostly gays.
• Not all admins single out others however, an heroes oftentimes perma-ban themselves. But this is just because they told you were hardcore.
• George Carlin spent his life trolling the admin, and was finally permabanned on June 22, 2008.

See also: k-line, Aussieintn

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