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Title: Re-joining the forum
Post by: nathana on September 24, 2024, 02:19:24 am
I was a forum member (though very infrequent) a few years back.  Somewhere along the way, it appears my account got deleted.  I just re-created a new account with the same username, but all of my previous posts under this username now show as "Guest" posts and are not linked to my account at all.

Is it possible to fix this and re-link those posts to my username?  Thanks.
Title: Re: Re-joining the forum
Post by: Ian B Manners on September 24, 2024, 05:09:00 am
Hi Nathan,

Apologies, might have zapped your account by accident during a cleanup of spam accounts, rarely happens but we are human.
If you could contact me off forum with the email address and any other details you can remember using and I will see if it is possible.
Title: Re: Re-joining the forum
Post by: Martin Iturbide on September 24, 2024, 02:19:45 pm
Hello Nathan

Welcome back.

I'm also sorry, I currently give access to the forum manually after checking for suspicious spam accounts. I got behind this last week.

Regards
Title: Re: Re-joining the forum
Post by: nathana on September 25, 2024, 10:13:19 am
Thanks.  I had previously registered on 30 April 2017, according to email archives.  I used the exact same email address to register my first account as I did with this one, and I registered with the same username that I also re-registered with this time around.

I haven't been able to find a reliable way to locate all of my past posts, since Advanced Search won't let me leave search terms blank even if I fill in "By user".  And since the database does not have my past posts associated with a particular account and it just considers them "guest" posts, it's also impossible to just show posts by that user since that "user" no longer exists.

It is looking like it may only be a very small number, so possibly not worth pursuing.  Unfortunately my prior PM history is also kaput now, too, I guess.

I am also seeing other people from around the same time period (some of whose threads I participated in) whose posts show they have also been converted to "Guest" users, indicating that their accounts have also been deleted.  I wonder what happened to cause such a purge of non-spam accounts from around the same time period...
Title: Re: Re-joining the forum
Post by: Ian B Manners on September 25, 2024, 11:44:01 am
Hi Nathan,

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I am also seeing other people from around the same time period (some of whose threads I participated in) whose posts show they have also been converted to "Guest" users, indicating that their accounts have also been deleted.  I wonder what happened to cause such a purge of non-spam accounts from around the same time period...

That might have been when a server fault developed, may not have been spam account purging.
Martin has a better memory that I of server problems :)
Title: Re: Re-joining the forum
Post by: mike on September 25, 2024, 10:31:19 pm

That might have been when a server fault developed, may not have been spam account purging.
Martin has a better memory that I of server problems :)

Maybe this one: Forum Database Corruption 14 September 2017 https://www.os2world.com/cms/index.php/past-news/83-news/site-news/21861-forum-database-corruption-2 (https://www.os2world.com/cms/index.php/past-news/83-news/site-news/21861-forum-database-corruption-2)
 
Title: Re: Re-joining the forum
Post by: nathana on September 27, 2024, 02:48:03 am
Maybe this one: Forum Database Corruption 14 September 2017

That doesn't seem to be related.  I signed up April 2017, and found a post from myself in December 2018, which would have been after this event...