There are two scenarios - If you have two accounts from onset and one of the accounts let's say commits plagerism and got banned. This does not affect the other account of yours which predates the banned account. It means the other account is not ban evading
I didn't see this rule anywhere and I haven't come across it. But that is what my common sense says it should be.
I disagree. Ideally a ban on one account affects all the other accounts owned by that person. However users can get away with it if there is no connection that links the banned account with the others. If by chance, a connection is later discovered, there is a good possibility that the account may receive a negative tag. I’m sure you must have seen this happen in reputation board before.
My point is, it’s not the “account” that’s banned but the person behind the account. So it’s considered ban evasion if that person still operates on the forum as a member. [/list]