A form of digitallighting specifically aimed at getting someone banned from a server, group, community, or website. The perpetrator provokes or frames the
target until the
target reacts, then uses that reaction (often isolated from context) to report them. Banlighting often spreads to related communities, as the perpetrator warns other moderators about the “
toxic” target, effectively blacklisting them across multiple spaces. The goal is not just exclusion but the destruction of the target’
s ability to find community.
Example: “After she disagreed with a
moderator’s friend, he
spent a week baiting her in
DMs. When she finally called him out in public, he reported her—and was she was banned from three connected servers within hours. Banlighting: engineered exile.”