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What kinds of bans are used?
I know suspensions and bans are used, and so are hellbans (called 'mutes' here, they make a user's posts invisible, not sure exactly how they are implemented here, please explain!).

Are slowbans used? (forum pages are made to load slowly for a slowbanned user) Sometimes I get the feeling they are, but the forums are pretty shaky so it is hard to tell...

How about errorbans? (forum pages return errors when loaded, all the time or some of the time) Same as with slowbans, sometimes it seems like these are being used, but I know the database is easily overloaded so the messages are not the rarest thing ever.