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I am amazed by how strongly the labels on software warp people's language. I would only use "ban" for users, not posts. It does not surprise me so much when natively English-speaking moderators report their actions in terms of the buttons they just pressed, though those buttons are not visible to the hoi polloi, but it does surprise me when they are unable to comprehend the confusion produced. A similar story was a boing-boing author's indignant insistence that they had "unpublished" rather than "deleted" a post.
In fairness, there's a pretty important difference between "make invisible" and "destroy." I don't know if that's the distinction in question, though.
If this is about the Violet Blue debacle then the distinction was more or less a distinction without a difference.