Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion
adamstgBit, I think you should create new poll and ask something like that:
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Price Dec 31th 2016 will be:
1. > 850
2. 800
3. 790
4. 780
5. 770
6. 760
.. ..
1. > 850
2. 800
3. 790
4. 780
5. 770
6. 760
.. ..
A lot of us believe that Adam should update the poll, but he is having issues with getting back into his account, after it was hacked (apparently) in mid September.
Edit: Oh... now it looks like the poll has been removed, or is it just me?
Oh
this is a bad situation. He can contact theymos or Cyrus and I'm sure they will give back his forum account. I have been in contact with Adam about this situation partly because I had gone through a similar hack attack of my account at about the same time that Adam did.
You are correct that you can get your account back, as long as you are able to go through various efforts in order to prove your identity - and maybe even if you may not meet some of the account recovery requirements. It seems that Adam had made some preliminary attempts to get his account back, but he ran across various difficulties proving his identity. He asserts that he may be having additional difficulties because of some of the shit stirring and trolling that he had admittedly been doing - but really, I doubt that he was so obnoxious and/or repugnant that the admins would not reinstate his account. I think that he just needs to be persistent and to go through the efforts (and hoop jumping if needed) in order to get his account reinstated (and currently (so far), he does not seem to be willing to go through such efforts).
I think it was necessary only a signed message from a old bitcoin address (that you previously posted in the forum, or sent by a PM to someone or also linked in your profile) and admin, in this case theymos, badbear or cyrus, can give you back the account.
You are completely correct that one of the ways to return access to your account is to verify through old bitcoin addresses, like you said, but apparently, Adam is claiming that he lost access to the old bitcoin addresses that he had lost, but to make matters worse, he had some issue with his access to his linked e-mail account, too.
Sure, there could be some other acceptable ways for him to verify his personal identity, but likely he has to make some of those efforts because admins are not likely going to do it on their own, or attempt to chase him down.. at least, I doubt that.
By the way, in early November, I had another issue of losing access to my account (because stupidly I used the secret phrase feature in order to attempt to access my account when I could not remember my password). It took nearly a month for me to regain access to my account- so I understand that sometimes it can take quite a while to get the attention of bitcointalk administrators, and only a few of them have sufficient access authority to reinstate accounts.
Maybe the admins were busy (Idk).
Yes, I had received some communications that appears that sometimes the admins are not able to take care of all of the admin matters related to this forum, and some admins have fewer administrative power than others (and even seemingly delegated responsibilities). Furthermore, I can imagine that sometimes, they are dealing with some bigger issues or even trolling issues or even some fake attempts of folks to communicate with them, with fake information and with spam, etc.
Sometimes there is a need to be persistent with various admins, and some members get locked out for extended periods of time, and end up creating threads in the meta section in an attempt to resolve their locked out (or ban matter) (which I was kind of preparing to do, as well, after waiting nearly a month and before my account was finally unlocked).