The meriting profile looks very suspicious thou.
After a 1-year posting gap, user recently woke up and first post was an application for a stake.com signature campaign





Despite no change on the password, the account is very like to have changed hands between July 02, 2017 and August 01, 2017 as the user's posting style completely changed
https://bt.irlbtc.com/view/208986.msg20546504#msg20546504

May I ask why? Account sales are not against the rules:
Is this a new policy? Or is it based on something I overlooked?

Wait I'm confused, I thought the scope of your companies roles was to handle account recoveries. I didn't realize you guys had the authority to also lock accounts prior to account recovery procedures being started, by someone with a claim to the account.

This is a little concerning, and somewhat invasive. I get that you have access to more data than the average person can see. I just don't think the "lock first and prove you own it" approach is best, without a claim being made by an "account owner". Just my opinion, and if forum policy has changed, sorry that I'm unaware.

Edit: Typos

That was the point I tried to make, but you wrote it down much better
As far as I know, even Global Mods don't have access to IP-information. Only Admins (and mysterious newbies) can see that.

This would probably be a good discussion to have in Meta instead of Reputation.

This is some next level mercenary shit. I thought they were like analysts, not wielding actual lethal weapons. WTF.

Indeed, we have access to more information than regular members and we treat this responsability with great care. It helps us recover hacked accounts but it sometimes puts us in the position to take action in the case of a high risk of account compromise. While it hasn't happened before, to my knowledge, there's always the risk of a false positive - by temporarily locking an account that wasn't hacked. We try to weigh these decisions as carefully as possible, on a case by case basis.


In this case, there was some highly suspicious activity that led us to believe the account was hacked a long time ago (2017), so I only locked it as Cyrus and I were digging through years of recovery claims to see if anyone had claimed it back then and we didn't see it. Since we couldn't find any recovery claim related to this account, and given the amount of time that passed since then, we'll soon unlock it. If you spot any further shady behavior associated with this account (or any other for that matter), please let us know.


Thank you guys for the way you care about our community and we're counting on your continuous help!

Thanks for the reply. I did cross-post this in the Cryptios thread (before I saw your reply) to move the discussion into Meta. Just for the purposes of clarifying these things for everyone, with the new dynamic of the forum and your company working together.

Appreciate the work you guys do, have a good one.

Sorry for the Off-topic.

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For a little on topic - Unless someone is legit begging for Merit " Please Murit me" "Murit is to hard, give me some" or "Can I have merit so I can rank up" Either through PM or as the only content of a post, it's not to bad.

On that note I would only tag someone begging for merit with a neutral, that's just me. They aren't going to get anywhere anyways until they stop the woe is me crap and just put in some legit effort.

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In the past, theymos has had a fairly high threshold to lock an account out from the person using it.

I am not 100% sure what the standard is however I suspect someone would need to show a basic evidence they are the owner and at least a statement from the person their account was hacked (so they would be lying if they sold it).

IP patterns also change for various reasons (such as traveling), but devices remain more consistent so I hope IPs aren’t the only thing you guys look at.

There is nothing to be suspicious smart ass, i had a conversation in telegram before joining the campaign and hence i applied and plan to be active in the forum.

Since you want to touch the suspicion card, it looks like you registered your account on November 01, 2017, 04:39:31 AM and your first post seems to be on  June 27, 2018, 05:18:20 AM, and you changed your password on 11/1/2018 2:17:16 AM what happened, you deleted your post history to cover up your shenanigans  .

Lets analyze your first post

This is your first post here and it clearly shows that you are not new here and you very well knew about bounties and very well aware of the forum, so what happened your old account got banned and you continued with this account . Then you took four months break to post another one.

PS: I am not accusing you anything but since you touched on that topic we can have a level playing field.

@admin I did not have an idea that you will lock accounts just because you got suspicious, privacy should be top priority no matter what unless you are involved in trade and dealing with huge amounts and thank you for clearing everything in a short period.

Good Job Cryptios team for helping users recover their accounts, but locking first should not be top priority unless there is money or trading involved.