» Sun Jan 02, 2011 3:22 am
This is NOT true - I just did that! No thanks to you though!
EDIT: I registered a new account, with an email address from a deleted account.
This won′t work at my new account.
You need to "unregister" your email account from your deleted/old account before you can register a new account with that email account...
I have successfully logged into my "deleted" account, be typing the deleted account username in the "forgot password" field... Can't remember if I was on the forum "tab" or "home" tab though - this is however important, as this site runs two (or more) very separate systems... Where the "forum" is separate form the rest of the site, and is running on its own database, hence all problems.
The calmed reason for this, is that a user can be banned from the forum, but still have an active game account. This is however BS as it might as well have been an attribute on the user table of the same database. You could just have a field called "forumActive=True" and a field called "gameActive=True". Once a the user get banned you just set "forumActive=False".
This would however force gamesas.com to implement their own forum module and not just use this open source project phpBB (http://www.phpbb.com/community/).
Edit: Btw the rest of the site is implemented in Drupal (http://drupal.org/), and is in fact running on its own database. To make matters worse we then also have to take GameSpys database into account.