I tried to sign a sig to put who I used to be while I wait for the powers at be to merge my usernames. I noticed the sig didn’t show up… then noticed that nobody else had one…
Are they now passé?
and I noticed under the Fixed or Improved sticky:
“1.3 million posts and 74 thousand threads deleted during 2005 and 2006 restored”
Would that be from the SDMB winter of discontent? Or was that from before then? I remember reading that those posts were GONE… was there another space of time that the boards were out of commission?
Sigs: you can do them, just check the box (and recheck it if you preview). Not viewing anyone’s is an option - so if you don’t see mine, look for that option. People still use them, the etiquette seems to be shortish and once per thread.
Restored posts - these are not from the winter of missed content incident (or from the pre VB days). A large number of threads were deliberately temporarily deleted in an attempt to deal with performance issues. They were stored and are now back in the database.
Related note… now that I’m back I’d like my old username… I e-mailed a few mods about it but havn’t heard any response. I signed up again as a paying customer a very very long time ago and was called “OnceClayton_e” or something like that… They quickly merged me back to me. Is there someone I should specifically talk to?
Email TubaDiva. she will clear it up.
I’ve merged your accounts, clayton_e, but in the future please don’t create a second account for any reason; if you have troubles with your account, just e-mail a staff member and we’ll be happy to look into the situation.