Banning and New Accounts
The cluster centers on debates about the effectiveness of user bans on online platforms, as spammers and trolls can easily create new throwaway or multiple accounts to evade restrictions, with discussions on detection, spam prevention, and incentives not to abuse.
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Please don't. Plenty of new accounts are old users.
This is parroting the "don't ban people because this way at least we can see what they're doing" meme. What, they can't create more accounts?
Don't need a vast array of accounts if you're not getting banned.
That is fair, but maybe the providers just want to stop account spamming on their sites, can you blame them for that?
Why is banning even a threat? I can make a new account for 20 cents lol.
It's possibly because of abuse from bots and such. It still does a great job of letting you manage anonymous accounts and swapping between them.
You missed the obvious one, it creates a black market for old accounts
Because services don't want to be spammed with fake accounts.
How do you stop this? It will just encourage then to create fake accounts .
Why assume that? Maybe there's a bug in their internal software, and it's cheaper to create a program that checks if you're banned and automatically creates a new account, than it is to fix their internal problem.