I guess they close your account after awhile as I tried logging in one time to delete any info and threads I had made but it said “user does not exist” or whatever so figured it was automatically deleted
I can't speak to how it works there now, but back in the day, I used to moderate the commerce section there. Ronin Six and I would talk sometimes and there were points when people with dormant accounts would show back up and try to steal. For example, both Chris Howes and Josh Church were exposed here for mass theft via custom commissions promised but never delivered. When this well ran dry and they could not longer try to steal here, both used their dormant OSW accounts to try to drum up "business" there. Both tried to say, "Hey I've been registered here forever, I just don't post much, you can trust me" Because I understood the pathway from being on both sites/forums, we ended up banning both of them immediately.
I kept a running archive of all the bad SSF traders/thieves at OSW back then. I recognize this is not the widespread rule that happens, but unfortunately people who steal in this hobby will mass register multiple accounts on multiple sites/forums.
So I was exposed to a lot of people coming to us about commerce theft that didn't make the public eye. There was, then, not an insubstantial amount of theft in this hobby. Some weeks it was pretty staggering.
Something Alice ( don't know if they are still around, we traded several times) and I talked about here on this forum, years ago, was using a piece of paper with your screen name and date and adding it into your commerce photos. Back then I pushed for all OSW traders to have that as the standard, but Ronin Six didn't want to take it that far. So for housekeeping reasons more than commerce reasons, I know Ronin Six trimmed the rolls for dormant accounts a few times. To be fair, forum changeovers/rollovers are often messy when you want to retain lots of archived stuff.
But those were the old days.
