Bane and/or Darth Bane was a group of screen names used by "hundreds of members" of a super-ultra-maxi-deluxe-secret organization (to hear him tell it, I think it was a lone Norwegian) whose sole purpose was to destroy HDC.
http://www.horror.com/forum/member.p...fo&userid=2221
http://www.horror.com/forum/member.p...fo&userid=3370
http://www.horror.com/forum/member.p...fo&userid=2707
http://www.horror.com/forum/member.p...fo&userid=2300
Those were the main SNs behind it. Read and enjoy