Originally Posted by mineistaken

My point was along those lines:
If OP is duplicate nick and OP thinks Sly may know that (because of IP for example) there would be no point in buttering up because that would not prevent from Sly following rules.
If OP is duplicate nick and OP thinks there is no way for Sly to detect/know that there would be no point in buttering up because Sly would not ban him anyway. Unless he broke rules in the future, but in that case buttering up would not prevent from banning because of integrity.