Account problems

[Amag0k1]

Hello, hope your all well and doing well.
Who do i talk to about account problems??

Thanks in advance!

 

[Amag0k1]

i took a screenshot when i saw your profile.

Validation i existed! Some one remembers me T_T ^^;;

 

[MasterEn]

Validation i existed! Some one remembers me T_T ^^;;

yeah, i was thinking it was weird that you hadn't made any posts for some time, and then i saw you on the anime memes thread, but i couldn't click on your name. my gut said to screenshot that, so i did.

Post automatically merged: Mar 9, 2025

i had an idea, and it worked. i went to the forum search feature and i typed in your name into the keywords bar and it found your posts. it doesn't show you in the results, but click on a link, and you can see your posts in the thread.

 

[Spike's iconSpike]

It's because of the temporary emails.
If you want your account to be permanent use a permanent email.

Use a valid e-mail address

Make sure your e-mail address is valid and able to receive mail (ie: not full). Accounts that don't have a working e-mail addresses will be periodically deleted. You can change your e-mail here. Thank you.

retrogametalk.com

 

[Amag0k1]

Whenever the Database is fundamentally changed, there's a chance of something like this happening. Have to make those UPDATE calls very carefully.

Since they are calculated I'm sure you'll get them back once the usernames merge.

I know with some of the stuff i use, even if the domain is flagged, you can white list a user within said domain.

For example, if you got spam form a gmail.com account, you could add nuance to the filter, to say allow A@gmail.com and not b@gmail.com.

Not done web admin in a while, i am more pen tester on allowed targets now a days, but there should be a admin white list for sure.

Post automatically merged: Mar 9, 2025

It's because of the temporary emails.
If you want your account to be permanent use a permanent email.

Spike, good to hear form you.

Regarding Temp emails.
The problem i have is permanent means a cookie crum, so opportunity for data analytics and potential profiling.

The aim related to doing this stuff (game translation and the like), is to remain anonymous.

All companies now a days have an interest to increase revenue, and part of that is data analytics, because data is seen as equity.

AI will also come in to this to make better decisions based on these analytics, meaning more money in the pockets of the people who can make good quality data.

You just have to look at firefox recently buying up an add company, to see where things are going.

If having a perminant email means a toss up between my licence and being able to make money in work, vs taking part in this, i may have to bow out.

 

[Spike's iconSpike]

If you used an alias/email forwarding service that guarantees you can receive email long after registration then it's fine.
What I can't have is temp emails that start bouncing minutes after sign up.

 

[Amag0k1]

If you used an alias/email forwarding service that guarantees you can receive email long after registration then it's fine.
What I can't have is temp emails that start bouncing minutes after sign up.

Thank you for your response.

Regarding mails bouncing.

Oh for sure, although i think mine took a while, but that says to me that the mails bouncing are used as an indicator of an account being a potnetual spam account. So, i have now noted this as a trigger.

Looking in to what you have recommended now, as i like this forum and the people who are in it. It is a beaken of hope for the preservation of retro gaming, which is far far more then any company is willing to do!

Can i do anything about my lost points?

 

[Spike's iconSpike]

Old posts can be assigned to this account once it switches to a non temp mail.
Username can be adjusted too.

 

[AnonymousCookieMonster]

Regarding mails bouncing.

Oh for sure, although i think mine took a while, but that says to me that the mails bouncing are used as an indicator of an account being a potnetual spam account. So, i have now noted this as a trigger.

Hmmm. You might just have to get an account at one of the free services. I'll assume you're using a VPN too.

I wouldn't worry about giving personal info too much, had a friend who signed up to hotmail put his name as J*** D***, which satisfied the system during signup. That won't really be enough to go on for anonymity, especially if the email doesn't hint your name like having john.doe, instead i got to choose my own which was a combination letters/numbers. (Though i chose it back early 2000...).

Anyways hope you and spike get it figured out.

 

[Amag0k1]

Hmmm. You might just have to get an account at one of the free services. I'll assume you're using a VPN too.

I wouldn't worry about giving personal info too much, had a friend who signed up to hotmail put his name as J*** D***, which satisfied the system during signup. That won't really be enough to go on for anonymity, especially if the email doesn't hint your name like having john.doe, instead i got to choose my own which was a combination letters/numbers. (Though i chose it back early 2000...).

Anyways hope you and spike get it figured out.

The name is not the real problem, its the meta data that is generated when being online on most new devices. You have things like tracking pixles that download an image which can run code within it to download / upload a payload to your system to interrogate the hardware.

One immediate example i can think of is SEID and EID, which is on every mobile phone and advertisers can pick up on. Pictures have EXif information that can note your location and other meta data, and much more.

If we where back 20 years ago, VPN and registering fake email accounts on static services would be enough. But allot and i mean allot of investment has gone in to the hardware we use for identification of us, that one (especially in my country) must be aware of what they are using.

I am having access this forum on a VM over multiple layers, isolated in a sandbox on a purpose build server, with choice older hardware on it.

ID is becoming such an issue, that Microsoft and apple cannot even be used for this stuff any more.

 

[Yousef]

I believe you have enough levels to now be able to dm others so you can just do that if you wanna continue conversations unrelated to the original post. Your original question has been resolved and answered so no need to keep this open.