Another reason someone could be banned in this situation (having an abandoned account that hasn't been used in years) is if they break a *different* rule on their active account, prompting staff to investigate them. Could be something like harassment, bigotry, inappropriate content, making callouts, or botting. I feel like this is what happened to hyrultia recently: lots of reports sent in about the callout post -> staff looked closer -> found multiple accounts -> banned for multi-ing.
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(Anonymous) 2023-04-12 01:21 pm (UTC)(link)