profile deleted after inactivity?

**Userprobe** · 09-29-2009, 15:33

Hi, after some month of inactivity i decided to come back to this forum, but my profil was deleted, due my inactivity in the last month, i think!?! Is that right?
And how many days of inactivity must passing by, before i'll get re-deleted once again?

**TinCow** · 09-29-2009, 15:53

We do not delete accounts due to inactivity, no matter how long a person has been gone. The only accounts we have been deleting lately are those created by spambots, since there's been a plague of them since last spring. Are you sure your account was deleted and it's not that you just forgot the password or something similar?

**Andres** · 09-29-2009, 16:15

What was the username of your previous account?

**Userprobe** · 09-29-2009, 16:28

My username was the same as now.
Here is a link to my last post made some month ago with my old account ...

/vb/showthread.php?t=110712

... cant post url's

You are only allowed to post URLs to other sites after you have made 1 posts or more.

There is also written that i'm a guest!

**TinCow** · 09-29-2009, 16:37

That is odd...

That account definitely appears to have been deleted, but I can't find any record of any Moderator doing it. Since I'm not aware of any automated system that deletes accounts, this will require a bit more research. In the meantime, I'll put in a request to have your member status bumped up to normal member. Apologies for the inconvenience of all this, we'll get it sorted out.

**Userprobe** · 09-29-2009, 16:50

Apologies for the inconvenience of all this, we'll get it sorted out.

No problem & thanks for the request!
I'm happy about that there is no "inactivity-account-deletion". Hope you'll find out soon where the problem was.

**Megas Methuselah** · 09-30-2009, 01:31

This account-deleting sounds suspicious... TinCow, I order you to solve this mystery and report your finds directly to me.

**TosaInu** · 09-30-2009, 12:35

Hello Userprobe,

I don't think it was deleted. Useraccounts with zero posts and inactivity for several months may get deleted, so something else must have happened (some sort of technical glitch, such as a record damage).

What was your previous nick?

**Userprobe** · 09-30-2009, 12:40

The same as now, but with the first letter in lower case!
Look here for my last post as thread starter with my previous account:

https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=110712

**A1_Unit** · 09-30-2009, 19:34

Do you think when the forum went all crazy with the time it somehow thought userprobe's account had 0 posts and was offline for months...?

**Userprobe** · 09-30-2009, 20:40

userprobe's account had zero posts

My previous "userprobe" account hadn't 0 posts.

**Martok** · 10-01-2009, 06:33

Originally Posted by A1_Unit

Do you think when the forum went all crazy with the time it somehow thought userprobe's account had 0 posts and was offline for months...?

That's kind of what we (the staff) have been wondering ourselves. Given all the problems the forum's had this past summer, I personally wouldn't be too shocked if one of those service outages turned out to be the culprit (either wholly or in part).