The Great Purgining of 2010 - Was your account deleted?

As the end of the year draws to a close, I took a few hours to delete about 45,000 accounts that were 99.999& spambots lying in wait.

With that many accounts, there is a more than likely chance that I deleted a few legitimate accounts by accident (I know of at least one).

If you are a legit luker (someone who has never posted) and your account was deleted, please accept my apology. It wasn't done out of spite toward you, but rather you got caught up in the rabble and were part of the collateral damage.

Please re-register and take a moment to at least introduce yourself in the Introductions are in Order Thread. If nothing else it will give you a post count of 1, which will protect you the next time the great purgining comes around.

For those of you that were passed over, take note of the members that survive. There are fewer than 300 of you in the forums. Many of those are people who have not been active in a while because of other life activities, and I would estimate the number of regular active members is half of that.

Now is your chance to go on a recruiting drive and bring in some real people who will talk about real things (as opposed to car insurance, warez, or global thermal nuclear war).

Once again, if your account was deleted by accident, please accept my sincere apology, and re-register to join in on the discussions.

Cheers
Stephen Schleicher