... despite providing a signature which has already been verified by a staff member Hilariousandco. Would it not make sense to allow more people to recover accounts? Maybe promote hilariousandco who has made a effort to contact cyrus/theymos multiple times for myself and others and verified the message already.
I do not think that recovering accounts merely is signing a message and then verifying that message but requires user verification. "More investigations to verify the user."
These investigations require more time to verify that you are the actual user of that account and have not sold it and attempted to recover it.
I agree with hugeblack on this matter,
because recovering an account is not only solely based on signed message
but also require further
(undisclosed method of) investigation by theymos or cyrus
and this thorough checks can only be done by user with full access to forum's logs and user's infos
allowing more people to recover accounts would be essentially giving more power and access to sensitive data