In other forums and situations, there is a grace period where a user can comment after receiving a very long ban. I think this is a good feature that has several properties with long term value.

We have strong reason to believe that Charles He used multiple new accounts to violate his earlier 6-month-long ban.

These accounts are some of these accounts I created (but not all^[1]):

anonymous-for-unimpressive-reasons
making-this-account (this was originally "making this account feels almost as bad as pulling a Holden," but was edited by the moderators afterwards).
to-be-stuck-inside-of-mobile
worldoptimization-was-based

Here are some highlights of some of the comments made by the accounts, within about a 30 day period.

Pointing out the hollowness of SBF's business, which then produced a follow up comment, which was widely cited outside the forum, and may have helped generate a media narrative about SBF.
Jabbing at some dismal public statements of Eliezer Yudkowsky's, and malign dynamics revealed by this episode. (Due to time limitations, I did not elaborate on the moral and intellectual defects of his justifications of keeping FTX funding, which to my amazement and disappointment, got hundreds of upvotes and no substantive dissension).
In a moderate way, exploring (blunting?) Oliver's ill-advised (destructive?) strategy of radical disclosure.
A post making EAs aware of a major article revealing inside knowledge of SBF within EA, and this post was on a net, a release of tension in the EA community.
Trying to alleviate concerns about CEA's solvency, and giving information about the nature of control and financing of CEA.
Defending Karnofsky and Moskovitz and making fun of them (this comment was the only comment Moskovitz has responded to in EA history so far).
Discouraging EA forum users from downvoting out of hand or creating blacklists/whitelists of journalists.

My alternate accounts were created successively, as they were successively banned. This was the only reason for subterfuge, which I view as distasteful.

I have information on the methods that the CEA team used to track my accounts (behavioral telemetry, my residential IP). This is not difficult to defeat. Not only did I not evade these methods, but I gave information about my identity several times (resulting in a ban each time). These choices, based on my distaste, is why the CEA team is "99% certain" (and at least, in a mechanical sense) why I have this 10 year ban.

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Other accounts not listed, were created or used for purposes that I view as good, and are not relevant to the substance of the comment.

Definitely Not Charles He.

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