Frankus/Tanihavit

Gassage

I often use my other log in to rave of my love of modelling gear and Madonna.

roberty

Gassage said:

I often use my other log in to rave of my love of modelling gear and Madonna.

Like a virgin?

Grangousier

roberty said:

Like a virgin?

No thanks, I'm trying to give them up.

GoFish

Grangousier said:

roberty said:

Like a virgin?

No thanks, I'm trying to give them up.

Ditto. I can't manage a whole one nowadays.

Bridgehouse

Snags said:

My limited understanding from "the other side" was that frankus lost his credentials for the old account, and presumably also access to whatever email he'd used to sign up with, so couldn't do a recovery. So created the second account. As far as I'm aware he never made a secret of it - there's a classified post from years ago where he says "I used to be frankus". Also as far as I'm aware, there's not been any overlap in posting between the two accounts, so it's not like there's been massive trolling or skullduggery.

It just looked like a bit of a random clamp down from nowhere, hence asking the question (which has been answered, although it all seems a bit odd that something so easily resolved wasn't easily resolved but ... people can be odd).

Cirrus said:

I guess it'd be fair to ask why Tanihavit didn't reply to the question about why he'd set up a new account, but it's pretty common for people not to get or notice PM notifications, it's a pretty standard frustration across the classifieds, and it's pretty common for emails to either get lost in the daily deluge of auto-generated notifications, get lost in spam folders, or be disabled in the forum software. He might just not have seen the requests for clarification.

If a member loses their password, access to their email account, or other issue, they can get in touch with us admin@thefretboard.co.uk - or if they do try to register another account, then they can comment in the "why do you want to join?" box stating that they can't get into their old account. We get that reasonably often, and we always respond favourably to it - we usually ban one of the accounts and let them carry on with the other. 

Similarly, once joined, if anyone PMs us and says they used to be someone else and can't access their account then that's something we will also look at favourably. We won't ban anyone if they are up front and honest about it - they just need to let us know one way or another. 

In this case the member in question had opportunity to do so for quite some time, and on multiple occasions. We only ask for people to be up front and honest - if they aren't we have to ask why they have chosen to do that. 

Snags

For clarity, I'm not chucking stones - it seems like something that should have been a total non-event if handled in the obvious way from the get-go. Which is why it's odd, as noted by all parties.

Cirrus

OK, in that case, Kill him. 

CoolCat

Occasionally I look at the interventions section just to see what antics some of the forum members have got up to.

I know it must a right pain in the gluteus maximus for the modmins, but some of the reasons for banning are hilarious 

PolarityMan

Bridgehouse said:

Snags said:

My limited understanding from "the other side" was that frankus lost his credentials for the old account, and presumably also access to whatever email he'd used to sign up with, so couldn't do a recovery. So created the second account. As far as I'm aware he never made a secret of it - there's a classified post from years ago where he says "I used to be frankus". Also as far as I'm aware, there's not been any overlap in posting between the two accounts, so it's not like there's been massive trolling or skullduggery.

It just looked like a bit of a random clamp down from nowhere, hence asking the question (which has been answered, although it all seems a bit odd that something so easily resolved wasn't easily resolved but ... people can be odd).

Cirrus said:

I guess it'd be fair to ask why Tanihavit didn't reply to the question about why he'd set up a new account, but it's pretty common for people not to get or notice PM notifications, it's a pretty standard frustration across the classifieds, and it's pretty common for emails to either get lost in the daily deluge of auto-generated notifications, get lost in spam folders, or be disabled in the forum software. He might just not have seen the requests for clarification.

If a member loses their password, access to their email account, or other issue, they can get in touch with us admin@thefretboard.co.uk - or if they do try to register another account, then they can comment in the "why do you want to join?" box stating that they can't get into their old account. We get that reasonably often, and we always respond favourably to it - we usually ban one of the accounts and let them carry on with the other. 

Similarly, once joined, if anyone PMs us and says they used to be someone else and can't access their account then that's something we will also look at favourably. We won't ban anyone if they are up front and honest about it - they just need to let us know one way or another. 

In this case the member in question had opportunity to do so for quite some time, and on multiple occasions. We only ask for people to be up front and honest - if they aren't we have to ask why they have chosen to do that. 

In light of this amnesty I think it only fair to disclose that my other login is Snags.

digitalkettle

PolarityMan said:
In light of this amnesty I think it only fair to disclose that my other login is Snags.

Snags

PolarityMan said:

In light of this amnesty I think it only fair to disclose that my other login is Snags.

I think the MPD gives us a valid defence.

Bridgehouse

PolarityMan said:

Bridgehouse said:

Snags said:

My limited understanding from "the other side" was that frankus lost his credentials for the old account, and presumably also access to whatever email he'd used to sign up with, so couldn't do a recovery. So created the second account. As far as I'm aware he never made a secret of it - there's a classified post from years ago where he says "I used to be frankus". Also as far as I'm aware, there's not been any overlap in posting between the two accounts, so it's not like there's been massive trolling or skullduggery.

It just looked like a bit of a random clamp down from nowhere, hence asking the question (which has been answered, although it all seems a bit odd that something so easily resolved wasn't easily resolved but ... people can be odd).

Cirrus said:

I guess it'd be fair to ask why Tanihavit didn't reply to the question about why he'd set up a new account, but it's pretty common for people not to get or notice PM notifications, it's a pretty standard frustration across the classifieds, and it's pretty common for emails to either get lost in the daily deluge of auto-generated notifications, get lost in spam folders, or be disabled in the forum software. He might just not have seen the requests for clarification.

If a member loses their password, access to their email account, or other issue, they can get in touch with us admin@thefretboard.co.uk - or if they do try to register another account, then they can comment in the "why do you want to join?" box stating that they can't get into their old account. We get that reasonably often, and we always respond favourably to it - we usually ban one of the accounts and let them carry on with the other. 

Similarly, once joined, if anyone PMs us and says they used to be someone else and can't access their account then that's something we will also look at favourably. We won't ban anyone if they are up front and honest about it - they just need to let us know one way or another. 

In this case the member in question had opportunity to do so for quite some time, and on multiple occasions. We only ask for people to be up front and honest - if they aren't we have to ask why they have chosen to do that. 

In light of this amnesty I think it only fair to disclose that my other login is Snags.

As someone who knows Snags well, I’d say this is entirely feasible, understandable, and excusable. 

Snags

Does anyone ever truly know anyone?

Bridgehouse

Snags said:

Does anyone ever truly know anyone?

Who are you again?

Snags

Bridgehouse said:

Snags said:

Does anyone ever truly know anyone?

Who are you again?

The ghost of Christmas present imperfect

Sporky

I wonder if anyone will form a future perfect progressive metal band.

If so they'll have been working on a new album. 

mrkb

GoFish said:

Grangousier said:

roberty said:

Like a virgin?

No thanks, I'm trying to give them up.

Ditto. I can't manage a whole one nowadays.

They don’t seem to last as long nowadays

Kittyfrisk

mrkb said:

GoFish said:

Grangousier said:

roberty said:

Like a virgin?

No thanks, I'm trying to give them up.

Ditto. I can't manage a whole one nowadays.

They don’t seem to last as long nowadays

They are the sacrifices we have to make, the devil is in the detail.

RocknRollDave

Some years back, I asked for my account to be deleted.
When I, much later, decided to return, I started a new account, having mistakenly assumed the old one couldn’t be revived.
It was all sorted out amicably as an honest mistake.

The modmins here aren’t knee-jerk banners. 

Bridgehouse

RocknRollDave said:

Some years back, I asked for my account to be deleted.
When I, much later, decided to return, I started a new account, having mistakenly assumed the old one couldn’t be revived.
It was all sorted out amicably as an honest mistake.

The modmins here aren’t knee-jerk banners. 

I might get a knee jerk banner for our stand at the guitar show….