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Thu, 10-17-2013, 10:26 PM
#2
As part of a big spam-fighting bot-fighting seo-optimizer-killing cleanup effort over the last several days, I purged somewhere on the order of 4000 accounts with zero post count, somewhat regardless of their last login.
Looking at my backup copy of the db, it looks like that account had zero posts, so would have been caught up in that process.
Normally I'd expect him to just re-register, but until I can do some other work on the registration process to make it harder for bots to register, I've got new registrations disabled. And until we're off the spam lists, email validation to reputable domains wouldn't work anyway.
The good news is that I can bypass that and just administratively create an account for him based on info I can pull from backups, and artificially goose his post count so avoid having that happen again in the future.
The bad news is that it's not so trivial to restore thread subscriptions, avatar/profile images, etc.
Also, people don't show up on memberlist with less than 5 posts... an anti-SEOspam technique I've had in place for a couple years.
Last edited by complich8; Thu, 10-17-2013 at 10:32 PM.
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