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Well as you know, I can no longer log into my account at SMF due to one simple disagreement with a "Customizer" so I guess it's not my problem anymore either. 

Keeping with the topic, I wonder who I have to pay at SMF to regain access.  :lol:

Interesting. IIRC that would entail you actually receiving a full ban which only the admins can set up - unless things have drastically changed, none of the lower ranks actually have that power. But that signals an interesting change to the dynamics, because no-one was ever banned (other than post bans, which is a separate thing) in years except for being a spammer.[1]

1.	Specifically the last person I understood to have received a full ban was ccbtimewiz. Yeah, don't go there. Oh, and me, at one point as a last-ditch attempt to keep me instead of account deletion of my original account last summer. But that's it.

Well it's funny since this has happened twice with me. One simple disagreement in a support topic and then no longer able to log in. Either the "lower ranking" one I had an issue with has access to alter accounts or he has a very good friend at SMF that does.

Either way I am looking to find an alternative to SMF and am looking forward to see how this project turns out.

Hmm. I understood that the team leads were able to modify accounts to the point of being able to alter groups (for SHOTM for example) but that there is something else at work.

Mind you, something to chew on: I was briefly involved with one of the efforts to work on the Cust site. And in doing that, I had access to FTP for the site and potential database access - so perhaps there is something amiss there...

Well I believe that it was something as simple as a password and email change. My password no longer works and when attempting to reset it I get the message that no username exists with that email.
Anyone with a standard Global Mod position can make these changes.


 

I thought the permissions had been altered on sm.org but if they are doing that, that's ridiculous and beyond an abuse of power.

I'd agree, almost 100%, ARG.

I've seen some shitty behaviour in my time but the more this goes on the more fucking ridiculous it gets. :(

ARG who you claiming altered your account? I see nothing that will prevent you from logging in, and I can assure you the Labradoodle has no power to alter your account in anyway except give you a warning, so do me a favor and stop the bullshit, honestly, you last logged in on 24 July your issue with Labradoodle was 23rd, im sure if he was that malice he would have done it on the 23rd but he couldnt as he doesnt have the power to.  Now if you wanna argue that I am a team member at SMF and of course ill defend the team, you should ask Arantor, Nao, K@ etc how honest I am, and then look at the history of the team and I.

Runic, if someone changed the password and the email address for an account, that would make it impossible to log in and to retrieve the password. And I suspect the changes wouldn't be logged in the profile change log either (I can't remember if it's turned on or not, and even if it is, it actually doesn't log everything anyway)

Also note that in a default setup, a global mod does have permission to make the requisite changes, IIRC.

Arantor ive seen the logs, the last ip to change ARG's account was ARG.  The last email change in his account was by ARG in January and changed the username of the account not the domain.  No standard team members on SMF have access to change the accounts.  ARG is BULLSHITTING and knows that he will get sympathy on here.  ARG if you want it sorted email info@simplemachines.org and stop spreading bullshit around and claiming a team member banned you!

Ask yourself: why would he have reason to bullshit over something like this given what he was doing for SMF beforehand?