When I am talking "account access", I mean letting the user login to chat/forums. We still keep access to the account and have all relevant data, so it wouldn't change how easy it is to track people.

Getting rid of the cheating account should be a given but then it is hard to track the user if you do give a 2nd chance.
I'd go with the 2nd choice but maybe instead wipe score and give them one more chance to play while submitting scores.
But for now I'd stick with giving a 2nd chance with a new account possibly link that there old account was such and such if possible?

Wipe their score and disable their submission, but let them keep the account. I am aware they can still create a new account and start from scratch just as if we banned them altogether, but on principle I'd prefer to punish the offense itself, rather than the offender.

That message (it's not you we don't like, it's what you did) will probably be lost on most cheaters though. Oh well.

i think people who cheated on secundary accounts should also have second chances..

so allow all the multis and all the cheaters? :p

Works for me :p
/runs

On a more serious note I think perma-ban is the best option, it may not be foolproof but it shows that we actually care

lunah also cheated and made a multi account linked to the old one, why isn't this option available to everyone?

Second chance. Thats your 453th account, asdasdasd654456

I was always thinking that preventing cheating is more important and useful than ways to ban them
Well, anyway. I voted for permaban

im talking acount getting permanent banned for secundary account cheating. No second chances? second chances are only to main account cheaters right? that's so fair..

Option 3:
Also all of their forum posts, their complete profile and all of the cheaters beatmaps are deleted. They should also be marked in both the user online list in game and their profile as a cheater so everyone will see it, and it should be so noticeable that you can not miss it. Also they should be silenced forever in any chat room and private messages. That is a very good punishment for cheaters, just let them be online and enjoy their shamefull existance and let them at least play without taking part in the community ever again in any way. This should also be applied for any other account they had before they got banned and also every new one they will create. And they should never again be able to post on the forums! Or make a subforum where only cheaters are allowed to post and let them cry with each other for the rest of their life

Hm, i don't think so. I recall you getting banned and then getting back with your original account. That was your second chance. If you kept cheating after that you're just stupid and should get permabans in every acc.