One of today's questions looks like it's been asked by a suspended user -- the user has 1 rep point and the account profile says the account is temporarily suspended. How is that possible?
asked Mar 30, 2011 at 13:35
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A suspended account cannot post new questions. What happened was that the user created another account to evade suspension. When such cases are discovered, the offending accounts are often merged into the master account that's still under suspension.
The post ownership is transfered to the master account during the merge and thus the post looks as if it were made by a suspended account.
answered Mar 30, 2011 at 13:36
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1Makes perfect sense. Thanks for posting the question and answer and educating us.– WalterMar 31, 2011 at 16:34
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Is this really working? Goma has allegedly been suspended for months, yet he has posted 20 questions in the last couple of weeks - 19 of which have been closed for being off-topic, non-constructive, duplicates, etc. Is he really creating new accounts regularly to evade his suspension? If so, is there any further activity that can be taken? IP block? Aug 4, 2011 at 22:52
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1@Carson It's a little ... complicated. There are multiple IP addresses involved and banning each one individually is not feasible. We're currently taking a "moderate the questions as they come and merge users when we find them" approach. Aug 5, 2011 at 1:00
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@Carson63000: It's amusing to me that Goma is still suspended ^_^ Feb 5, 2016 at 19:44
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