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A personified, jokey term for a moderator's power to permanently ban a user, imagined as a literal weapon a mod "swings" to enforce community rules.
REAL-WORLD EXAMPLE
"The banhammer finally came down on that account after months of warnings."
LORE & ORIGIN
Standard forum and gaming-community slang from the early 2000s onward, treating a moderator's ban action as if it were a mythic weapon being wielded, a running joke across nearly every online community with moderation.
FIRST SEEN
2000
PEAK POPULARITY
2026 (Community Governance Canon)
CURRENT STATUS
Legacy / Decaying Slang
Related To:PermabanTemp BanModerator / Mod
EQUIVALENT CONCEPTS IN OTHER LANGUAGES
AURA IMPACT ⓘ
+1 AURA
TREND STATUS
↑ HIGH RISING FAST · LOW
CULTURE CATEGORY
[ FORUM CULTURE ][ ATTENTION ECONOMY ]
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2000
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