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The term originally referred for creation of multiple accounts in order to pretend to be someone else, generally in order to act like someone else is agreeing with your points or something in a discussion - akin to talking to (and through) a sock puppet.
It's come to mean any creation of a secondary account to pretend to be someone you're not, or to get around restrictions placed on your initial account. In this case, they were hit with the moderation hammer for numerous rule violations, mostly creative corner related IIRC.
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