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Hi all

I am totally new to these forums and made an account the other day. For some reason I get the message that my account was "manually deactivated" when I try to login with it

The username was luminous, so if a board admin fancies pm'ing me to sort it out that would be great. Only reason I ask is that I am currently having to use a backup email address that may not be available in the future.

Your account has been reactivated. *stares over spectacles at DaddyHoggy*

It's called 'Friendly Fire' I believe.

Friendly fire ain't.

Ahruman wrote:

Your account has been reactivated. *stares over spectacles at DaddyHoggy*

Apologies - I thought I'd correctly followed Aegidian's instructions for deactivating users where users had joined but never logged on after a week - I guess I didn't get it quite right - it won't happen again - apologies Mirthle/Luminous!

No worries, all is forgiven

I thought I would just take the opportunity to say hello to me, from me......

"hi me"

Hi luminous,

glad you could, despite my best efforts, join us on the friendliest board this side of Riedquat(tm)

Good... does that mean I can delete 'mirthle'? <manic grin... cackles>

DaddyHoggy wrote:

Apologies - I thought I'd correctly followed Aegidian's instructions for deactivating users where users had joined but never logged on after a week -

Deactivating after a week seems quite slow. Since the new board I often am deactivated (read logged out) after several minutes. There must be some kind of bug. Also the date of my last visit, that is displayed at the top-left, is rarely correct. Yesterday I logged off and on again and my last visit time/datewas correct, but after logging on an hour later, it told my last log-on was a few days back?

Are there others having similar problems?

I've noticed that whilst phpbb2 correctly tracked the new items posted since my last visit, phpbb3 seems to be unable to manage this - I find that it doesn't accurately recognise that I have viewed a topic.

No problems with being logged off or the board remembering which topics I've read but apparently the last time I visited was Fri Dec 31, 2010 7:43 am - which is wrong.

No problems here.

Eric Walch wrote:

Deactivating after a week seems quite slow. Since the new board I often am deactivated (read logged out)

No, don’t read logged out. Deactivation means the account is locked and can’t be used without being manually reactivated by an admin.

Selezen wrote:

I've noticed that whilst phpbb2 correctly tracked the new items posted since my last visit, phpbb3 seems to be unable to manage this - I find that it doesn't accurately recognise that I have viewed a topic.

Odd, exactly the opposite is true for me.

Eric Walch wrote:

DaddyHoggy wrote:

Apologies - I thought I'd correctly followed Aegidian's instructions for deactivating users where users had joined but never logged on after a week -

Deactivating after a week seems quite slow. Since the new board I often am deactivated (read logged out) after several minutes. There must be some kind of bug. Also the date of my last visit, that is displayed at the top-left, is rarely correct. Yesterday I logged off and on again and my last visit time/datewas correct, but after logging on an hour later, it told my last log-on was a few days back?

Are there others having similar problems?

I've not noticed - but I will watch my last log ons from now on - it may explain why some "active members" fell foul of my never logged on sweep - note though I did the differential between first registering and not logging on - the criteria being if you register and then don't log on in a week then you're probably worthy of a deactivation.

May have to resist the mass deactivations - although they shouldn't be need to now we've definitely cleared out some of the historical chaff...