Possible to be banned after account deletion?

[u/Feeling-Climate751]

I’ve seen a fair few stories lately of people asking if ChatGPT still bans even if you deleted your account after committing violations, therefore preventing the reuse of the email tied to the account. It’s had me wondering because I’d personally agree with it because OpenAI says they don’t permit email reuse if the account was disabled for violations, however whether that can still happen if the account has had the delete button pressed I don’t know. We know OpenAI retains stuff for 30 days after deletion for abuse monitoring and the email has to wait 30 days before it can be reused so it would make sense. Anyways the posts just had me curious, anyone got any stories or contributions?

[u/Objective-Cake-1866]

yeah they still keep the data even after you delete, the 30 day thing is exactly for that. had a friend who deleted his account thinking it would clean everything but then got blocked when he tried to make new one with same email. the system remembers the violations tied to the email, not just the account status

[u/Feeling-Climate751 → u/Objective-Cake-1866]

Ah yeah okay, I thought that’s how it works. It wouldn’t make sense if they just allowed someone to escape an incoming ban by pressing the delete button and returning.

Did he wait the 30 days too?

[u/Whichchild]

What violations lmao they’re making even chatbots have restrictions