| Gilgamesh said: How does people come back from a permabans, doesn't permaban mean banned forever?? if so how do so many people come back after getting permabanned? |
Three things. First, on this site a "perma" ban only lasts two years; if the person still cares about/remembers their account after those two years, they can log back in afterwards.
Second, you're always free to appeal your ban, "perma" or otherwise, with the mods, who have the discretion to repeal it. I'm guessing appealing a perma-ban almost never succeeds, unless there's been a serious misunderstanding or some such, but it is theoretically possible.
The third way, and the one that's affected the most users, is for their to be an "amnesty," in which all banned users are allowed to return. This happened over the summer, when ioi lifted all bans on all people for reasons known only to himself. It's unclear whether and when this will happen again, though, so don't count on this method.
