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A necro post in a gambling discussion? I thought this would be a copy-paste and sure enough Google agreed.
There was a post by jt byte in the same thread.
The original post is there in Google Cache and has been deleted.
My hypothesis - apriloni is an alt of jt byte and is deleting posts in 1 profile and posting it in the other. Tongue

So does it mean that my hypothesis of users deleting their old posts and submitting them again got finally confirmed?

Kind of. But this wasn't a newbie deleting old posts and another newbie posting them.
The original post was by a Hero member. I guess the account must have been banned if the user didn't mind deleting the posts.

Are banned users allowed to delete their posts?

I understand that it was a Hero member, but couldn't the same be done by lower ranks too, especially if they get banned (provided they can delete their posts, of course)? Also, if they have enough posts, their activity shouldn't go down as long as the number of posts matches the required minimum for their rank. So there is at least one reason for doing that, right?

The post count is stored each time you hit the "post" button. 1 is not added to it when you edit it, so 1 wouldn't be removed when deleting it. I think that getting a ban prevents your from logging into your account. Unless there's a way to bypass it then you will not be able to delete the posts (And would be breaking the terms of your ban affording yourself a permanent ban). Also, activity is generated from post count so if the count is fixed and can only increase, then so is the activity count.

Nope, your post count goes down when a post you make is deleted. You can try it out. So you are wrong about the activity count only increasing as well.
Plus a ban doesn't prevent you from logging into your account. The ban message tells you what you can't do.

You are banned from posting or sending personal messages on this forum