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Originally Posted by SGT RJ
That's up for TPTB to decide. If another feels comfortable vouching for you, and a mod feels comfortable with that vouch...
It's really early yet, and there's a lot of people who seem to expect this to be resolved immediately. Doesn't seem like that's going to happen.
And in response to the above diatribe, I don't think anyone is blaming the posters. But I LOLed when you said that you change emails for security, but never changed your 2p2 email, even though you make your living on 2p2.
Um...yeah. Not your fault the forums went down. But screaming about how unfair it is that some posters make their livelihood on here but didn't take the basic precaution of ensuring their email address on here was up to date is a little LOL.
The fact that a mod would 'LOL' at someone who can't get in their account when this is happening to a huge number of people disgusts me quite frankly. Let me explain to you why some players don't use their current active email for 2p2:
1- we don't get/want any communication from forums outside the forum itself(most most people don't)
2- if you're a winning MS/HS player your priority is to make sure people don't hack into your account on Pokerstars, or your email account, IM, etc etc. Scams are posted almost daily on 2p2 where people's accounts have been hacked. The safest way to make sure this is the case is to not let any randoms know which is your current active email, current active IM, skype, etc.
The fact that 2p2's data was accessed by outsider PROVES THE POINT about not storing whatever information you consider as private on 2p2's server. To a lot of us, our active email address IS part of that private information, because we use that to communicate with Pokerstars etc and make transactions etc. If that email address is made public then scammers could try to hack into the account. But they can't hack into an email address if they didn't know what it was. And email addresses and passwords = the exact breach that's occurred here with 2p2. I bet you through this 2p2 shutdown out of the people who have a lot of money online, those that used a separate set of passwords and email addresses are more relieved than someone who played online as say durrrr123 and registered with 2p2 as durrrr123 with
durrrr123@hotmail.com and same password on 2p2 as PS. At least I'm glad that my online accounts are not at risk here, just the 2p2 original account. I personally know people who immediately worried about their online account being hacked on Apr 26 because they used the same email address and password with 2p2.
I should not have to explain this but apparently that was necessary.