Permaban
Because the Something Awful Forums are such a monstrously huge online community, they’ve had to deal with all sorts of bizarre user-management scenarios. Banned members returning over and over to annoy people; members stirring up drama, swearing to leave, leaving, then coming back later; and, yes, members dying, through causes commonplace and unusual alike. I don’t think this has happened before, though.
William Freund, known as forbiddenforum on SA, committed double-homicide, then suicide, with the help of a 12-gauge shotgun. A week ago he’d been posting on a guns subforum at the SA forums, asking creepy questions about buckshot. Nobody gave him any information that aided his crimes  he was more or less laughed out of the thread  but once someone figured out the connection, the gut reaction was panic: “Okay. Deep breaths, guys. Did we make fun of an autistic kid, tell him where he can find buckshot, then laugh about it?”
Annoying SA members get put on posting probation; really annoying members get banned (they have to pay another $10 to re-register); hall-of-fame idiots get permabanned, meaning they can’t ever register that username again. As tradition, deceased SA members get permabanned in order to retire their usernames. The banlist entry is surreal: among bans for trolling, posting gimmicks, and drunk posting, there’s this little nugget:
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