Ya, I shouldn't have gone as far as to delete it but Meak's post insulted both me and michael plus he said how I lost KC for Finn and how there should be a post cap for assholes like me. So I was pretty mad as you can imagine,  anyway I was kind of wanting to participate in the chess tournament otherwise I would be taking a longer break. Anyway if you could please do that for me it would be greatly appreciated.

Lewis

I believe there is actually a way to restore an account, but this is only done for exceptional circumstances. Ask shadow for that.

Mick wrote on 08/11/14 at 03:40:51:


Yes. But he once told me it takes him 15 minutes to do so... so don't get too carried away.  

I've also heard that people's accounts have disappeared sometimes during forum maintenance, and Jonesy/Penev had to restore them?

Don't give them their accounts back, maybe it will teach these kiddos to stop doing dumb things for attention.

LewisRichards wrote on 08/11/14 at 23:28:46:


He's saying, "Fullback you!"  

LewisRichards wrote on 08/11/14 at 23:28:46:


If you hate somebody it's way better for you and for everybody to ignore him instead of insulting him in public.

^ok, I see... well thanks anyway.

Is it possible for you to do it next week?

@Rhodechill looks like you got your wish

@Saint Nicholas de la USA you know everyone always assumes that I'm saying a bad word but it's about time someone understood what I was trying to say.

I'll try next week to see if I have a backup that can restore those 2.  

I don't see why it matters if anyone has their accounts back or not. Unless you're a moderator there's nothing that a user with say 10k posts has over a user that just made an account.

Lewis & Sam:

I forgot to mention earlier, that if you do get your old account back, all your PMs will be lost. At least mine were. So if you saved old PMs that your friends sent you, too bad.

Also, your settings will be the same as they were when Shadow last made a backup of your data. If you had changed your displayed name, image, signature, etc. since then, you'll have to go back and do it over. In my case, when my account had to be restored in 2013, it was with data from 2010 so I had to hunt down the URL of the image I had been using, restore the "My Mario Kart Ranks" image, etc. but I was still just glad to have it back.

You will notice at first that even if your old account's posts are once again linked to your old account, the "Display last 5/10/50 Posts" won't work properly. It will only display posts on boards that you have posted on after your account was restored (e.g. make one post on General and then all of your past General posts will suddenly appear) I don't understand why this is so, but it's really not that important because most of us don't go around deleting our accounts.  

I hope Shadow will be able to fix both of your accounts, out of simple fairness, but I can't make any guarantees. I better not try to get you too excited. In any case I'd try to act more respectful, polite, and most of all grateful in the mean time, because nothing says he has to do this favor for you guys. The last thing you want to do is act childish and fling insults, in that case I imagine you would not get your account back.
I just don't want anybody to repeat mistakes I made, I would prefer to educate you from them.  

Yes but the post count doesn't actually do anything besides change the icons and status next to your name. It used to display the post count under your name with every post you made, this was changed because presumably people actually cared about this enough that they felt it was more important to have a higher post count. You can still see the number of posts in a few ways tho. It's also possible for a mod (or at the least, an admin) to edit his post count to be like 1000 so he gets his lightning bolts back, which I assume is much less time consuming than manually restoring an account. I just don't see the point, and that goes for everyone.

LewisRichards wrote on 08/12/14 at 08:59:33:


We're not in Miiverse here  

Hey Lewis, nice to see you back.  Why do you need your account restored?  If it's because you're worried about your post count, you shouldn't be.  Worrying about that kind of thing is what causes you to post when you probably shouldn't be and what caused this problem in the first place.  Try to post a little bit more in moderation and you'll do just fine (maybe that's why the term 'moderators' came to be, trying to balance the forum out so that we get an equal contribution of voices instead of some people either saying too much or being too harsh in some cases as well).