Hi everyone, I've been thinking a lot about banning for linked accounts and how it could potentially be very unfair for a small minority of banned players.
For example, let's say Fred is a normal, non-cheating player that lives in the US. He stops playing for a while and perhaps his password is not so secure, and a hacker in Russia, let's say his name is Viktor, accesses his account. Viktor then proceeds to cheat on Fred's account. However, Viktor is a serial cheater. He has several accounts banned by PB and FF linked to his IP address.
Now, Fred is linked to all of Viktor's accounts, and even if Fred makes a new account after realizing his old was was compromised, he will forever be linked to Viktor over his first account.
It should be clear based on IP location that these are two different people, but I'm not sure that this sort of situation taken into consideration when banning for linked accounts.
Personally, I don't think someone deserves a permanent ban for any account they create just because they chose a bad password/had an insecure account.
What are your thoughts?