Re^2: Why was my account deleted?

I didn't create any rubysinnhotels accounts. But that might explain why the account Ruby may have been deleted by mistake - tho I find it odd that there's actually evidence of the other account having ever existed. Perhaps because they had posts. spam bots > legitimate accounts.

"Why was my account deleted?" is a straight-forward and sincere question - As someone who works with applications, who's been involved in database maintenance, etc.. I'm just curious.

If the answer is, "we purge accounts here and don't keep an audit trails" that's OK - or if the answer is "this site is run by volunteers and the account may have been accidentally deleted" - that's acceptable too. It sounds like the answer is "We don't know.

What I don't understand is anyone taking offense to that question.

What is concerning is that a member of gods is now accusing me of 1) not knowing what account I created and 2) spamming perlmonks.

I provided what evidence I could to gods clearly showing emails from vroom to the user Ruby. Rather than responding to me at the email address I provided gods, which was associated with Ruby, you dox me instead.

This isn't the sort of behavior I'd expect from one of the gods.

I'll drop the question now as the tone in this thread has turned sour.

This will be my last post on this topic as Anonymous Monk, 2024-04-28 00:00:46Z

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Re^3: Why was my account deleted? by erzuuli (Cannon) on Apr 28, 2024 at 12:40 UTC
Please read my update above. I got the user wrong originally because (a) you said the user was locked, so I went looking for a locked user named 'ruby' and found that one, and (b) I didn't find any user named 'Ruby' because that account had been zombified, and zombified users have their names changed (by prepending 'Zombie '). I should consider that users don't necessarily know all the minutiae of how this place works, e.g. the differences locking and zombifying. Sorry about that. I didn't dox you. (1) People don't know who the real person is behind silent11 or Ruby — neither the real name nor the email address, which is all the info we have. And even that info isn't necessarily "real". (2) There are documented restrictions on what people can do with secondary accounts here, and we've made no representations that affiliations between primary and secondary accounts will be kept secret. Again, I wonder why you care so much, given that you never did anything with the secondary account. I probably would have followed up by email except I saw you raise the question here, so I figured you wanted your question answered publicly. I regret that I misread you on that.	[reply]

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Re^3: Why was my account deleted?
by erzuuli (Cannon) on Apr 28, 2024 at 12:40 UTC

Please read my update above. I got the user wrong originally because (a) you said the user was locked, so I went looking for a locked user named 'ruby' and found that one, and (b) I didn't find any user named 'Ruby' because that account had been zombified, and zombified users have their names changed (by prepending 'Zombie ').

I should consider that users don't necessarily know all the minutiae of how this place works, e.g. the differences locking and zombifying. Sorry about that.

I didn't dox you. (1) People don't know who the real person is behind silent11 or Ruby — neither the real name nor the email address, which is all the info we have. And even that info isn't necessarily "real". (2) There are documented restrictions on what people can do with secondary accounts here, and we've made no representations that affiliations between primary and secondary accounts will be kept secret. Again, I wonder why you care so much, given that you never did anything with the secondary account.

I probably would have followed up by email except I saw you raise the question here, so I figured you wanted your question answered publicly. I regret that I misread you on that.

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