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There are a number of ways we can work out if someone who has been banned has set up another account. We have recently experienced this with another banned account and were able to review certain information and stop the subsequent accounts from going live.

It is not 100% accurate though and we have had instances where further accounts have been set up successfully. However, even then it often leads to those other accounts being banned within a fairly short space of time. Such people usually don't change their behaviour, tone or language and so its easy to spot them a mile off, whether its through their content or subsequent community reports. We have even had community members flag such instances to us, especially when the banned member hasn't been shy in coming forward that they have been banned previously/are the same person!

We also monitor any accounts where there is a risk that the account is a duplicate from a banned member but where we can't be 100% certain that is the case.