Wow. I remember Slashdot. I was very active there before they had accounts. When they first introduced community moderation, I was one of the people chosen to be moderators. Then after the volume increased it lost all possibility for extended discussion, so I burned out on it. Years later they had a password compromise. So I changed my password, lost the new one, and of course it is tied to a no longer exising email address so I can't get my account back.
If anyone is curious, I was once http://slashdot.org/~Tilly there. My last comment there was a dozen years ago. (I've commented as AC a few times since, but not much.)
Tilly, if it helps, the same thing happened to me. I contacted them a few months ago and they were kind enough to reset me based on knowing some information such as the old email.
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Wow. I remember Slashdot. I was very active there before they had accounts. When they first introduced community moderation, I was one of the people chosen to be moderators. Then after the volume increased it lost all possibility for extended discussion, so I burned out on it. Years later they had a password compromise. So I changed my password, lost the new one, and of course it is tied to a no longer exising email address so I can't get my account back.
If anyone is curious, I was once http://slashdot.org/~Tilly there. My last comment there was a dozen years ago. (I've commented as AC a few times since, but not much.)
Tilly, if it helps, the same thing happened to me. I contacted them a few months ago and they were kind enough to reset me based on knowing some information such as the old email.
That is good to know, but /. seems sufficiently dead for conversation that I see no point in going back.
If there was a point, I'd not have left in the first place, or else I'd have created another account.