I suspect this is a blatant lie. , the system account doesn't automatically trip ban evasion from what I can tell in my many bans on Ruqqus.
From what I can tell, they added an auto-ban system for ban evasion accounts a while ago, but it doesn't ban the accounts immediately.
Note: I don't understand the code very well. I also don't really understand sessions. I just looked at and .
From what I can tell, if you log into one account (let's say MainAccount), log out, and log into another account (let's say AltAccount), then AltAccount will be connected to MainAccount.1
So let's say that you log into a banned account, BannedAccount, before creating a new account2, NewAltAccount. Then NewAltAccount will be detected as a ban evasion account. Some attribute, "ban_evade", is then set to (I'm guessing it's related to the number of banned accounts you've logged into) for NewAltAccount.
Then, if you're using the account NewAltAccount, whenever you do something that requires you to be logged in (like viewing your settings page or commenting), a random number will be generated from 0 to 100. If "ban\evade" is more than that number, you get banned for "Evading a site-wide ban". Otherwise, "ban\evade" increases by 1.
1 From what I've tried, if you clear cookies before making a new account or logging in, then it might not connect your accounts, but I'm not really sure how it works. When I wanted to know if one account was connected to another, I subscribed to the same user on both accounts. If the subscriber count went up by 2, then it meant the accounts were not connected together. Otherwise, if the number didn't change, it meant the accounts were connected. I don't know if it still works like this, and I don't know if there's any way to "disconnect" accounts.
2 From what I can tell, the following only applies to new accounts, not existing accounts
They can ban via device ID. It doesn't matter what cookies you have, or changing your IP.
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