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Title: FULL MEMBER ACCT locked because did password reset by secret question Post by: ptypichai on October 26, 2015, 04:13:51 AM I have an account with an activity level of over 900 and I was a Full Member. I did a password reset by secret question and it locked my account. I did not know at the time that doing this automatically locked the account. It would have been nice if the password reset page said do by email, not by secret question because we will automatically lock your account. I sent an email to the email address the page gave when it locked my account. Still waiting for a response. Will someone eventually respond and unlock the account or do they ignore these emails forever. I am bummed that an account with a high rating got locked for something so stupid and the page should have warned me not to reset by secret question.
Title: Re: FULL MEMBER ACCT locked because did password reset by secret question Post by: cryptosmoker on October 26, 2015, 04:22:29 AM Did you ask whoevers account it was for their secret answer?
Title: Re: FULL MEMBER ACCT locked because did password reset by secret question Post by: ptypichai on October 26, 2015, 04:26:51 AM Did you ask whoevers account it was for their secret answer? It is my account. I was traveling on vacation and forgot the password. The secret answer was correct and the password was reset. But I did not know until afterward that Theymos set the board to automatically lock any accounts with password reset by secret question due to hackers. If I had done a password reset by email the account would not have been locked. I only found this out afterward by searching the META section after my acct got locked. No warning that doing the secret question would lock the account. A warning not to do this on the reset page should have been there. It has happened to many senior members who did not know this was implemented by the board operators. It did gave an email address to contact Theymos for a possible unlock. Still waiting for a reply. I have a bitcoin address in the signature so I can do a signed PGP message to prove it is my account if needed. Title: Re: FULL MEMBER ACCT locked because did password reset by secret question Post by: achow101 on October 26, 2015, 04:43:34 AM See the thread I made about this here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1206977.0
You will find instructions on what to do there. Title: Re: FULL MEMBER ACCT locked because did password reset by secret question Post by: ptypichai on October 26, 2015, 05:25:41 AM See the thread I made about this here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1206977.0 You will find instructions on what to do there. Thanks for the info. When I get home from vacation I will do as you suggested in the linked thread. I have a BTC address in the sig so I should be able to send a signed message. I will send PMs from this account until I get a favorable reply. A warning on the reset page to do by email only to prevent locked accounts would have been nice. Title: Re: FULL MEMBER ACCT locked because did password reset by secret question Post by: mexxer-2 on October 26, 2015, 05:43:30 AM See the thread I made about this here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1206977.0 You will find instructions on what to do there. Thanks for the info. When I get home from vacation I will do as you suggested in the linked thread. I have a BTC address in the sig so I should be able to send a signed message. I will send PMs from this account until I get a favorable reply. A warning on the reset page to do by email only to prevent locked accounts would have been nice. I think this was suppose to be a secret. Why? |