In that case you can give someone an infraction, a short term ban, or a quiet word via DM. Slowing down their page load speed to basically zero is not something a fully grown adult would think is an appropriate solution.
Please tell me, what other reason is there to use this method?
It effectively stops you using the forum, but doesn't show the 'banned' status under the name. If they wanted someone to stop using the forum why wouldn't they just ban them?
It's because, as has been proven in this thread, if...
I've had this on my account before. On the old software the add-on was called 'miserable user', it seems Xenforo has the feature built in:
https://xenforo.com/community/threads/miserable-users.5035/
Pretty petty from whoever did it. If they don't want you to use the forum, ban you. The only...