autoban

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noun

An automatic ban; a ban administered automatically.

“Users who vandalize the site will be autobanned.”

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Meanings

nounautoban (plural autobans)

plural autobans

  1. An automatic ban; a ban administered automatically.

    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).

    2015 October 30, Brady Dale, “Posting on GamerGate’s Subreddit Gets Users Automatically Banned on Others”, in The Observer
verbautoban (third-person singular simple present autobans, present participle autobanning, simple past and past participle autobanned)

present singular third person autobans · participle present autobanning · participle past autobanned · past autobanned

  1. transitiveTo ban automatically.

    Users who vandalize the site will be autobanned.

    1 more example

    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.

    2015 October 30, Brady Dale, “Posting on GamerGate’s Subreddit Gets Users Automatically Banned on Others”, in The Observer

Origin

From auto- + ban.

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Cite this entry
APA

autoban. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/autoban

MLA

“autoban.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/autoban. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “autoban,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/autoban.

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