So I'm back and only to find the user account has been restored…

[Cesrate]

So… The profile is relatively easier to rebuilt, but friends…

And, now the join date has been wiped off, is there possibility for any administrator to modify this? I've been here since November(Or December? Anyone remembers it?)…

[OdinYggd]

Most of the administrators are exceedingly busy right now, and I don't know a a way for moderators to modify your join date.

[Schweehog]

My password was reset as well as my picture XD Good thing I save my pictures.

[Rich]

If we start handing out join date/post count changes, the work load will get out of hand so we will not be making such adjustments.

[Steamtex]

Damn it. I hate when this happens....

[SkyRender]

Listed join date and post count are really not worth worrying over, anyway. Everyone's been knocked back to zero (or at least close to it).

[purpletarget]

This whole episode and the prospect of the Mod's job ahead of them make me thing just one thing....

I better make sure the backups are running properly on the other forum's that I mod for!

[Schweehog]

At least my join date is still here always gotta look at the bright side! (Warning: Do not look directly at the sun, you will get superpowers.)

[malkuth]

Lost my account.. Was here since Dec too.. Seems that if you were only a few months in your account went bu bye.. Most likely means they didn't have a back up that was up to date.

[Stealth2668]

Lost my account.. Was here since Dec too.. Seems that if you were only a few months in your account went bu bye.. Most likely means they didn't have a back up that was up to date.

Ya apparently Oct. 2012 is the cut off date.

[(An Original Name)]

Ya apparently Oct. 2012 is the cut off date.

Apperently not Oct 1st, since that's when I made this account. My posts have been considerably reduced though

[Devo]

Listed join date and post count are really not worth worrying over, anyway. Everyone's been knocked back to zero (or at least close to it).

Exactly, lets work on rebuilding the content in the forum, not post counts and titles.

[LordPenguin]

I concur. Kerbals should be jugged not by their join dates, but by the quality of their booster engines and strut placement.

[Michael Kim]

I lost all my threads, posts and PMs...

But um... welcome back, I guess I should say

[Simplicity]

well at least on the bright side they didn't lose everything, now that would have been a disaster for all...

[bigdad84]

I barely scraped by Made my account in september.. still lost everything though.... weird.

[AlternNocturn]

I was getting sick of my Labrys in Sunglasses avatar anyway. Art for Swans is pretty unique, I like it.

[AlternNocturn]

Testing Testing...

[Yuming]

My account got deleted as well. Joined in december, but other than pride, post counts and join dates dont really mean anything.

[42undead2]

Some day, a person will look at the statistics, and say ''Hmm, that was high amount of new people that joined. How could that be?...''

Just got that feeling.

[swiftgates24]

I just want my avatar fixed...Luckily I've been on the forums for one year, as of Sunday.

[RawChicken]

Yeah id also like my date changed...but I see why this is higly improbable to happen..

People will keep in mind that the forum crashed and thats why there are so many accounts made on april

[Yuming]

I can't wait to see the graphs the mods put out every so often an see how big of a spike it was.

[Cby]

Mine was made in late may, though the changes to my profile has been reverted severely. Still has my old joke about hating birds. It's not true, I love birds!

[chainedlupine]

At this point, I put the suggestion before the site admin that the forum post templates are edited so as to remove the join date field. The data would still be displayed on someone's profile, but a lack of it on each post might help salve over this new, arbitrary division in the community.

Of course, the down side of that is that it means post count becomes more important, which might encourage new people to spam in order to seem like they are an oldbie.

Personally, when I ran my own forums, I avoided any kinds of stats that can be construed as "forum experience points", such as post counts and join dates. It's fine to display these in profiles, but when they are a part of each post we make, people sometimes make a game of it and there is resentment when they cannot "win", particularly if there arbitrary events such as the forum reset which might "reset their XP."

If people want to share their join dates, what version of KSP they bought first, etc. then they could use their signature for that.

Then again, a forum reset doesn't bother me that much. I don't particularly care about my date or post count (or other people's, for that matter). Maybe it only bothers a handful of people here, and does not require the time needed for addressing the issue, and I am just over-analyzing the issue.

I've had great advice and fun by talking to oldbies and newbies alike on here.