I tried to return to my Habbo Hotel account in 2016 after a 10 year ban. After some struggling to login, I contacted support, and found out that they delete any account banned for more than SIX MONTHS! I waited 9.5 years to log into an account that didn’t exist. RIP “Mr. Funnyshoes”
Back in 2005 I figured out how to log in on multiple Habbo accounts at once. I would run casino rooms using the dice and use a mob of clones to make it look like real players are winning and betting big. If an actual real player ever bet and won, I would kick them, tear down the whole room, transfer the items to new accounts, and start it up fresh. I probably had a few dozen accounts banned.
Oof, I still have mine from 2003. 14 Year old me, cute.
ArtMoney with a filter pack that allowed you to place furni in walls. You'd get room rights and then grief the place and you couldn't get them out without the same script.
Same as rigging someone's doorbell to TNT in Minecraft.
Hahahaha that’s a hilarious idea. I once applied to a company just to fix the fact that they banned emailing my domain name because it briefly had a lapse in registration. It was preventing me doing password recovery…they ended up fixing it after weeks of me emailing everyone i could find at the company and explaining in detail exactly why they couldn’t email me. Default sendgrid reputation protection behaviour, they had no idea.
Ex-MSN person here. Hotmail accounts are made inactive after 180 days of disuse, deleted after 360. I don’t recall the recycle time; however, you might be able to get it back if it’s been recycled.
RuneScape (1) the original, deleted my accounts shortly after switching over to RS2. My usernames were pretty amazing. 'Cash Trader' and 'Gem Trader'. Ironically there were NPCs called Gem Trader... so sad to have your account(s) you worked on for what felt like forever randomly deleted as a kid. Along with any rare old items.
Around 6 years ago I was messing with my HN settings, and accidentally set my minaway to the equivalent to 6~ years (I set it to a random number w/o bothering to read what it did).
My first comment post-self-ban was much less epic though.
Some time ago, I asked 'dang to ban my account for a month or something, as I was trying a HN detox. He told me to set minaway to some stupidly high number, and e-mail HN when I'm ready to come back. I typed some digits and banned myself for the next couple thousand years. In reality, it took me ~year to decide to come back, after finally understanding that blocking HN only causes me to seek out inferior forms of Internet use.
> In a Google Doc shared with the thread via social media, our hero explained how posting in SA's community had been an important part of his life, how he had done a lot of growing up and a lot of mental healing in the intervening 100,000 hours, and how he now regretted his life as an infamously abrasive poster.
It sounds like someone grew out of their 20s and mellowed out in their 30s. A tale as old as time.
That could sum up SA as a whole. The culture there has shifted a lot over time, but not due to an influx of new users, it's the same people who have been posting for upwards of a decade and have (mostly) grown up. The founder Lowtax refused to grow up but, well, you know the story and now the site is under new management.
So, I didn’t know the story - turns out Lowtax passed - but in searching I found a bemusing internet history of how Lowtax’s “banning of hentai on SA [was] ‘The Archduke Ferdinand Assassination moment that lead to QAnon’”
I was also also once banned from a forum for a few years. I kept going back there, never created a new account. Just waiting for the years to pass. It was not some crusade to get back, I was just curious and every few years when I would remember, I would check out the site. Until one day the site disappeared. It would have been fun to be able to log back in and just say "I am back".
I used to get banned from a forum, would use vpn to create a new account and identity with a new character and be a helpful poster until I had access to the social part of the forum and would immediately make a hilarious post with “I am back”.
There's a few of these characters in every SA-like forum, in a portuguese one, one of the major memes of the forum is that 99% of the accounts were alt-accounts (or "clones" as they were called there) of this one guy that was an edgy meme lord - for the same reason - avoiding bans. This thread reminded me of so much lost lore.
Talk about necroposting. I actually find this aspect of BBS/newsgroup/forum culture to be very intersting, and norms around necroposting vary widely between sites. I've noticed that many modern sites automatically archive threads after inactivity or due to age, such as Reddit and HN.
I wonder what the rationale for disabling comments on old posts on HN is? I can't imagine that is due to any technical limitation. I've often found old threads and replied to them when I'm able on platforms that allow it. When I find old threads on HN, I'm always a bit forlorn when that eventuality is forsworn. I suppose that's why reposts are allowed, but I can't reply in-thread to the same person I intend to when old threads are locked. It's just not the same.
Anyone else into posting on old threads? What's the oldest thread you've revived?
There is great comedy in resuming some argument after great delay as if no time has passed, the pettier the better.
I’m still waiting for a ban to end on my favorite CS 1.6 server so I can go back in and point out that people that awp mid on dust2 suck and probably have no friends.
In a not so amusing story, there was a scholar that was persecuted, suffered violence, and finally fled Italy in the 1920s. Once the war ended he was reinstated as a professor, and—a quarter of a century after being purged from his post—returned to his now war-torn country. His first lecture began thus:
They were lucky the forum still *existed* or the ban logic was still in place after 10 years... So many sites like MySpace have gone defunct or others have changed their systems, etc, etc.
SA has mercifully managed to avoid the death-spiral that is the pursuit of infinite growth. I've been posting on SA for almost 20 years, and many people have been there even longer.
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Back in 2005 I figured out how to log in on multiple Habbo accounts at once. I would run casino rooms using the dice and use a mob of clones to make it look like real players are winning and betting big. If an actual real player ever bet and won, I would kick them, tear down the whole room, transfer the items to new accounts, and start it up fresh. I probably had a few dozen accounts banned.
ArtMoney with a filter pack that allowed you to place furni in walls. You'd get room rights and then grief the place and you couldn't get them out without the same script.
Same as rigging someone's doorbell to TNT in Minecraft.
I miss those days.
My first comment post-self-ban was much less epic though.
:)
Some time ago, I asked 'dang to ban my account for a month or something, as I was trying a HN detox. He told me to set minaway to some stupidly high number, and e-mail HN when I'm ready to come back. I typed some digits and banned myself for the next couple thousand years. In reality, it took me ~year to decide to come back, after finally understanding that blocking HN only causes me to seek out inferior forms of Internet use.
e: totally wrong, my bad
They seemingly have a gap from July 14th of 2018, to 4 months ago.
It sounds like someone grew out of their 20s and mellowed out in their 30s. A tale as old as time.
https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/qro1ir/comment/...
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I wonder what the rationale for disabling comments on old posts on HN is? I can't imagine that is due to any technical limitation. I've often found old threads and replied to them when I'm able on platforms that allow it. When I find old threads on HN, I'm always a bit forlorn when that eventuality is forsworn. I suppose that's why reposts are allowed, but I can't reply in-thread to the same person I intend to when old threads are locked. It's just not the same.
Anyone else into posting on old threads? What's the oldest thread you've revived?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_forum#Necroposting
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/necropost
I’m still waiting for a ban to end on my favorite CS 1.6 server so I can go back in and point out that people that awp mid on dust2 suck and probably have no friends.
"As I was saying in our previous lecture, ..."