Does "howardsentell" have ulterior motives behind creating his account?

[Cricktor]

Could it be that howardsentell's account got a temporary ban? Not solid evidence, but as he's quite often posting daily that account went silent on March 8^th. Of course, everybody benefits from some digital detox, be it self chosen or forced upon; it's only little more than two days and nobody is obliged to post daily but his account has been "active" today, so something must be restraining him, where restraint isn't quite his forté.

nutildah suspected this also already here which made me curious to look around a bit.

Unfortunately the forum only indicates a temporary signature ban on a user's profile page and to my knowledge no temporary bans. I didn't see anything about a temporary ban on his BPIP profile page either (likely not indicated). There doesn't seem to be anything on Mod/Security log, too.

I know I can see permanently banned users with the BPIP browser extension. Any reason why temporary bans are not shown for an user by the forum software?

[nutildah]

He is for sure temp banned as he kept PMing people after he was asked to stop. He also continually bumped his threads with consecutive posts, despite it being made clear to him it was against forum rules several times.

Now that officialmoderator has been banned, howardsentell technically earned himself a permaban, although there is no direct proof they are the same person (I'm willing to bet an IP check of the two accounts could confirm this).