I don't get why can't the forum hire like one or two people to recover those locked accounts with signed messages.
One or two people would be able to recover dozens of accounts per day and this problem could be easily solved very quickly.
There are many trusted members here on the forum that would do that for a small fee in btc.
A couple of staff including myself and other veteran users have thrown their hat into the ring to help out with recovering them. Only theymos can choose to do this, but he did say an automatic recovery tool should be available before the end of the year. That won't help those users who don't have a signed message though.
I don't get why can't the forum hire like one or two people to recover those locked accounts with signed messages.
This trust means that they can access to admin's account. Thus they have full powers just as theymos does.
Even if we assume that such a trust exists, the large number of admins will cause some bugs + any hacks of these accounts would threaten the forum as a whole.
Also, the process of restoring accounts is not merely a sign/verify the message.
The best solution is that theymos trusts the investigations of some members and thus recovers those accounts based on their recommendations.
You don't have to be given full root access, you just need to be trusted with being able to restore people's accounts and not abuse that for you own gain.
I really don't think that this is a problem at all as long as it is about an account recovery following the guidelines for recovering via a signed message as sometimes a follow up thread is something that is needed to be done in order to get the attention of the admins
The problem is they're just not being recovered at all by the admins and until they are (or the recovery tool comes) then people are going to keep making the threads and bumping it every day or so often as that's what they're instructed to do.
Up for visibility. I think it's time to create sticked post by moderators since so many ban post reflecting on meta. Mod could answer them easily who got ban. Once open meta just see ban appeal post. Sometimes difficult to found few important post.
People largely don't read stickies. Half of the people whining about account bans or hackings don't even post them in Meta; they just get moved to there by staff. I'll just repost this which I posted in another thread as it's still relevant:
But this is what Meta is for: forum-based issues, and that's what a banned account falls under. It's even in the rules that banned users can only post in here. I don't think we need a new sub for this, especially as Meta would be pretty empty without them, but a way we can severely curb this behaviour is to just change the way bans are issued. If permabanned users are just actually told that they're banned for copy and pastes then 98% of them probably won't bother creating another account to ask why (though I'm sure some will still do so to try futilely protest and whatnot). Bans are clunky and tedious to issue on this forum and I don't know whether theymos will make any changes now, but I'm sure it'll be easier and more efficient on the new forum software and hopefully reasons can be given for all bans. We have one permaban button for Ban + IP ban and maybe theymos could issue another that does the same but automatically gives the reason as copy and paste since the bans issued for this are prolific and probably won't decline anytime soon. Only he can make changes to that though, but I'm not sure a new board is necessary. Same goes for account recovery. They just actually need to start being recovered and moving them into a new section is just sweeping them under the rug.
