Several discussions lately have made me wonder if I can recover my original user account here. I created it, made some number of posts, then was one of those chased off when it went pay. I have completely forgotten what the user name might have been and as it would have been 1999-2000 it is likely tied to an email account long gone.
How might I find this account again? I’d love to pick up as a '99er instead of as an apparent newb…
So fast I made the edit window: I FOUND IT! I FOUND IT! I’M A '99er - APRIL 1999! WOOT!
Now I have to figure out how to get the accounts merged, like, mebbe, or something… mods?
Whee, I’m now officially restored as a 99er. Thanks, TubaDiva!
(An early '99er, if I read things right… what is the earliest registration date - March or February?)
With reference to the “lapsed Dopers” thread, I may be near the top of those identified, with a gap from October 2003 to November 2012. I suppose there’s a reason for no posts in that gap, but darn if I can come up with one.
Hm, I can remember the kerfluffle when it went pay to play as it were, I have no idea how I ended up with a 2004 charter member deal. I know I was participating in the Dope well before 2004. I don’t think I was posting under any other name, other than perhaps Margali?
I wouldn’t mind being a charter member, given my duration in the Cecilverse, but as I’m one who chose to opt out instead of pay - although the original pay-or-go-away model was a little brusque - I am probably disqualified from even the most lenient retroaction.
Looks like we are fairly close neighbors, aruvgan; are you significantly north of the shoreline?
That can’t be it. Margali was registered in July 2004, several months after you signed up as aruvqan- you never posted as Margali and never used the account after that one day. Maybe you can think of some other account names or email addresses you might’ve used? If so, send them to me in a private message.
Very possibly. I don’t think I ever saw the query you have linked, or it might have led me to it earlier. I rely on the “new posts” search a lot, and it misses things.
What I think is interesting is that in your previous incarnation all of the threads you started* were in “Comments on Cecil’s Columns” or “Comments on Staff Reports” (two forums which are merged now). But you haven’t started a thread there since.
*I haven’t gone so far as to research your posting habits in other forums.
Well, it looks as if I only made about 20 posts total in my earlier incarnation; I was probably still spending more time in AFCA, where this board wasn’t well thought of. Most of the reasons to post were to respond to Cecilisms. The more general crack had other outlets in those days.
