I accidentally reported my own post as spam and now my post count is 0

alienux

Explorer

• Nov 23, 2016

• #1

I was trying to report a spam thread that appeared over night. I accidentally reported my own post instead. When I did this, I first got a message saying that I had been banned, with a ban lift date of "never." Several minutes later, I was able to start reading and posting again, but my post count was set to zero, and I couldn't send a private message because of not having 5 posts.

Can this be fixed?

 

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Morrus

Well, that was fun

Staff member

• Nov 23, 2016

• #2

Gah. No.

I spotted that it was your post (and account) which was spam banned and immediately unbanned you, but the spam ban tool is a bit of a nuke from orbit - it also deletes everything the account ever posted.

I'm really sorry. There's no way to get them back.

That's highlighted a weakness with the spam banning tool, though. It should probably be made not to work on accounts with a lot of posts. I'm so sorry you were the person whose misfortunes made that apparent. We definitely need some more robust error checking on the spam bans.

 

LordEntrails

Hero

• Nov 23, 2016

• #3

On the bright side, you still have your level ...

 

alienux

Explorer

• Nov 23, 2016

• #4

Well, at least I still have my account. Thanks for the info on what happened.

 

alienux

Explorer

• Nov 23, 2016

• #5

LordEntrails said:

On the bright side, you still have your level ...

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True. I just noticed that it kept that.