Got home and sent PMs a couple of days ago. I hope I can get my Sr. Member account unlocked. Would suck having to start all over building a rep here.

Yes, I meant posts, sorry. Posts over 1040 and Activity over 330. My locked account is a "Sr. Member." Thanks for pointing out my brain fart. Also a BTC address has been in my sig for about eight months or longer and it is from my Trezor. So when I get home from vacation I can definitely send signed messages with that BTC addresses' private key.

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.

My account just got locked today due to this stupid implantation of password reset by secret question. Had I know about this I would have just done reset by email. It is really annoying because it is a FULL MEMBER account with activity over 900. Today I had to make this new account so I could post. I sent an email to Theymos to the email address given when I was told my account was locked after trying to sign in after the successful password reset by secret question. I am on vacation so when I get home I can figure out which BTC address I have in the sig of my old account and sign a message with it. If they do not answer the email I guess I will use this account to send a PM with a signed message every week as the OP suggested until I finally get a favorable response. I wish I had known about this before resetting the password. Using the secret question seemed faster than doing an email reset. A warning on the reset page that my account was going to be locked would have been nice and I would have done an email reset to avoid having my account locked. Very annoying.

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.

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.