Quote:also, if my account was deleted and/or banned i'd expect it to be added to some sort of blacklist, rather than being able to just sign up again, with the same username and associated email address. perhaps there is a mod for this in future? i only really access this forum during down time at work, where i'd be accessing from a fixed ip.My home IP is static by my ISP, but random events will cause it to change at times. Are you 100% sure your work IP address is the same as it was 2 months ago? Or are you sure it is not dynamic?
There is no history with your current IP address. It appears like you never signed up at all before.
Though most spammers get banned via IP/username/email, sometimes people post things that is on the fence with spam. And sometimes mods/admins dont want to ban them in case they are just "weird". In those cases we mostly just delete the post, and warn them, but one mod/admin mod might of accidently deleted the user (you) instead. But this would only happen if you posted spammy posts or advertisements for your own websites, etc.
Im not too worried about it unless it happens again, or to another person. Then it shows a pattern of a problem. But yes it is odd. Of course it would be interesting to hear from other admins about this.
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