Account gone

[vlad54rus]

While visiting forum today i tried to login into my account, but it didn't let me in. Tried to reset password and it said that email i entered is not valid.
Found one of of my messages, and that i saw was this:

Spoiler:

Wft? Why did my account gone? Who did it? I had to register again.

[JosJuice]

I believe that accounts that haven't been active in a year or two and which have very few posts are occasionally deleted. Not entirely sure why that is done, though...

[Shonumi]

It's done as automatic pruning my MyBB. I don't remember the exact criteria, but it's something like low post count, low total amount of time online, etc.

EDIT - Alright, I looked it up, it's basically two items:

• Post Count < 4
  
• Account is at least 730 days old
  

We get a lot of "One Shot" accounts. People post a single question or comment, leave, and never return again, so in that regard it makes sense to have pruning enabled. We also get a lot of accounts that register but never post (presumably to do whatever? Maybe send a PM once or twice to someone here).

[vlad54rus]

Thanks for clarification. Although for all time i only did two posts, is it possible to link them to my current account?

[Shonumi]

I don't think it's possible to link them, unfortunately. I think the most I can do at this point to make your new account like the old one is increasing your post count by 2. I can't change stuff like posts attributed to your account or stuff like your registration date.

[vlad54rus]

Thanks anyway, thread can be closed.