I'm not really pointing any fingers, I just think it's crazy to permaban a kid for using multiple forum accounts, whereas people can grief/speedhack and have one account banned, only to make a new one. That's more or less the issue.
I have to agree with you, which is why on the forum side of things (which I have some measure of control over) I always try to give the multi-accounter a chance to pick an account and stick to it & its history.
On the in-game side of things, unless we're directly looking I don't know of any easy way to pick up on multiple accounts. Yes we can check for IP, but that doesn't help with siblings in the same house or with hardened grief/hackers who just use proxies. :L
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