Quote from: JeromeTash on April 27, 2024, 02:23:55 PM

Why would someone having a good business and built up positive trust in the forum all of a sudden start posting malware links if not his account getting hijacked? The mods never listened and to this date, it beat my understanding.

Your points make sense. I am not aware of such cases. Could you please forward me to the case to read more about it?
If it is obvious that the account was hacked, the mod should give him a 2nd chance. Anyway, as far as we know, Cyrus wanted to give 2nd chance to the banned users, did that user apply to unban his account?

Quote from: LoyceV on April 27, 2024, 03:27:45 PM

On the one hand it seems harsh, but on the other hand it took OP years to claim back his account. I have accounts on many forums that I created years ago and haven't used since, but if I can't access them anymore, I wouldn't expect a special recovery. It's the risk of abandoning an account for that long.

As you can see already, OP said he is not here to get his old account. So it's understandable that he did not care about his old account even when it was hacked. He still does not care about it.