Rarely Asked Questions
hackban is an alias for ban. This means that it is identical in every way except that you type 4 more characters at the beginning. This alias exists purely for legacy support with a command from 2016, which could ban a user by their ID. This was needed in 2016 because the normal Discord client couldn't ban someone that wasn't in the server. The only way to ban someone that wasn't in the server was to use this hack-y method of having a bot do it. This specific functionality is no longer needed, and the regular ban command already accepts user IDs as valid inputs, making the old hackban command objectively worse than ban, so it was merged in the form of an alias.
