Well, I'm glad that permanent bans aren't exactly permanent as I've had two permanent forum bans on this account (they were many years ago). If perm meant perm, I wouldn't have been able to post on this account again, which would've sucked.
That said, if people continue to disrupt and rule break on alt accounts after a perm on their main, then yes, they should be punished accordingly. You gotta have some sort of consequence for disrupting or else people will just abuse it.
Right now you can just rule break and nothing will really happen because you can just make an alt account and continue your path of disruption. People that want to disrupt likely have many alts and have no issue making others just to continue spamming or whatever it is they do on the forums.
Jagex don't care about the forums, so nothing will happen. People know this and that's why they don't really care.
Doing this won't kill the forums because they are already dead. They're just being held together by veterans that can't quite let go of the forums. If we all left, forum activity would drastically drop and then the forums would die. It's not truly dead yet because there is some activity, but considering the lack of new blood, it certainly feels like it's already dead.
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08-Jul-2020 07:13:29