Considering how many
first offender accounts are still not banned, even if there's crystal clear evidence, like
here,
here or
here, banning HedgeFX after his alt P2Pfinder got already banned, would be very inconsistent. Even first offenders don't get banned if there's crystal clear evidence.
Basically, P2Pfinder / HedgeFX got his initial punishment already by getting
P2Pfinder banned and after that, HedgeFX learned from that mistake.
In my opinion, that is not consistent with the ban being to the person, not the account. That's why banned people are only allowed to create an alt to appeal their ban.
What do first time offender cases have to do with this one of someone who has already been banned?
In the case of this thread we are talking about a full member account, which at a good pace can take 4 months to return to rank up, so we could understand that he has received a temporary punishment of 4 months. However, following what you say, being banned would take no punishment, especially for low-ranked accounts. So a newbie or jr member who is banned, to escape the ban they would just have to create another account. What would be the punishment they would receive?