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matrix: why so many accounts? because soft-failures mess things up

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@ -493,6 +493,10 @@ My reasons for that are many and I am often proved correct in them.
homeservers to sync ACL bans in the worst cases. It also resulted to a lot
of state resetting so the affected rooms never got cleaned up as the spam
users kept coming back and clients had issues handling so inflated rooms.
- Federation also fails when a spammer sends messages after getting banned
and thus moderation bots fail to remove messages from them as those don't
get to the banning server. Thus moderators need more accounts again.
- [matrix-org/synapse#9329: Soft-failures make federated bans racy and frustrate redaction](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/9329)
- State resets keep happening and thus I cannot trust other accounts than the
one which created a room in question stay as power level 100.
- Homeservers come and go, sometimes with little to no warning. As I have many