Further, since all of the information used to make the determination is public, it would be trivial for someone to impersonate someone they are trying to make look bad.
I don't think it's trivial but of course you'd say that.
But it's downright impossible that cryptohunter would be watching this and would resist posting anything for a week while someone is impersonating him to make him look bad. He used to explode all over Meta on the slightest pique.
Regardless of if he is banned, he appears to want to improve his standing with the administration after this thread and after theymos warned him that he is close to getting banned. It was transparent in that thread that someone is/was putting in effort into trying to get him banned
It doesnt surprise me that he is trying to lay low. IMO, he doesnt want to be excluded from the forum.
Considering CHs post history is public, someone impersonating him could continue prewritting a number of posts until there are sufficient similarities between what is written and how CH writes.
If CH is being impersonated, it wouldnt be the first time someone tried to impersonate someone to make them look bad.