Well, I'm the one who banned him, and it wasn't just because he made a second account. It's not like we have a rule that making a second account = automatic banning. A lot of people in the past have made second accounts because they didn't know they weren't allowed to, for example, or because they couldn't post and wanted to tell us, or something. We didn't ban those people.

Award Guy is for running contests run by the staff. It's not like BoB is pretending to be Award Guy. It's completely different. The EoFF Sniper account made 50 posts total, and it wasn't used for devious purposes, and we generally knew who it was the entire time, and we DID tell everyone back then that making new accounts = bad, because lots of people were starting to do it. If I remember correctly. If the Sniper started posting regularly all of a sudden, that account would be banned of course. As for Lesbian Seagull, I don't know why Bleys did that except he thought it'd be funny. And it was. In a nice sort of way. But that kind of thing is looked down upon and I don't think any of the staff would do that kind of thing again, because people would probably get the wrong idea and interpret it as "I guess EVERYONE can make new accounts now, so let's go do it".

So in summary, making new accounts = bad, but not nearly so bad as to make us ban you. Acting like a jerk = ban-worthy, so don't act like a jerk and everything is fine.

I have very little else to say on this subject.