Sorry, if this a newbie question, but I can't find this information by searching the forum.

I am trying to get my locked account unlocked. I can prove that the account is mine, if I can show hilariousandco the PMs that the account has sent (I know PM ids). He told me to report the PMs to him:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2100692.msg21186950#msg21186950

To put it simply, I don't understand what this means. Does report mean I need to press a button on "Report to admin" on the PM? But you can only do that if the PM is in your inbox and the PM is in the inbox of other user's accounts and outbox of the locked account that I'm trying to unlock in the first place. Does it mean that I simply have to enter a link in my browser: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=pm;sa=report;l=-1;pmsg=[PM_ID] while logged in? Which would mean that any user can report PMs, even if he didn't send/receive them. I tried doing that but I get the error screen "You are not allowed to access this section". Please help, people who got their account unlocked by hilariousandco by proving ownership through PMs, how did you do that?

I see a lot of posts about people who have can't access their accounts, but can't get any response from admins/moderators. Was anyone able to recover their accounts recently, and if they did how long did it take? Was your account hacked or just locked for security?

Since I don't wanna disturb him directly with a noob question, I wanna ask hero members can hilariousandco see our PMs? I'm asking, cause if you only posted your Bitcoin address/key in a PM can hilariousandco see them to get your account unbanned? And if he does, does he access our account directly to do that?

Hello, I got locked out of my Senior account due to it being unused for years (it wasn't hacked). I read that I need to send a signed message, but PGP signature isn't in my profile or any public posts (I did not know what PGP was when I became a member of this community years ago, and forgot to ever update my profile, PGP key isn't required when you register to the forum, after all). However my public PGP key is posted all over my PM history, so if I post that to one of the moderators and they post an encrypted message back, that only I can read, and I post the content back to them, shouldn't this be sufficient proof that I'm the original owner of the account?

I have a Sr. account, and I have some important urgent information to my old contacts if they're still around on this forum, but now I can't access my account after not using it for years. I don't necessarily need a new password, just unbanning the account would work, if that is more convenient. I can see that the account hasn't been logged in since the last time I was years ago, it just got locked because I haven't used it for a while.