I also had a similar situation. I had a full member account until I wanted to change the password and strengthen it with a secret answer to the question in case I forget his password. When you enter the answer to the question in case of loss of access to the password, a message was displayed that it is not advisable to do this, and then the account was blocked by a similar inscription. No matter how many I addressed to the addresses indicated for the purpose of its restoration, I received no reply. This not normal. Moreover, if I typed the name of this account and the password to it, the browser completely locks and I have to reinstall it. After that, I started using a different account.
Did you send a signed message to cyrus and theymos? Post it here so someone can verify it at least.
everyone would have to experience the banning, so if I were you, don't waste time and create another account and start over.
Or you better create multiple accounts so that when other accounts will be banned, you still have another.
Stop spreading this crap. Permaban is forever. The person and any/all accounts here are banned. FOREVER.
In fact, you deserve red for encouraging ban evasion.
The sad thing is this guy has already been busted for huge account and merit farming and he could have dozens to hundreds of other accounts and nothing will be done about it. Banning people is pretty much useless because people just evade their ban on their multitude of alts until the ban expires and losing a few accounts to bans is probably just an occupational hazard for account farmers and sig spammers these days.
