Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-36035664-20190621053101/@comment-35245651-20190621123813

The account was disabled because it showed up on chat and started spamming. If you went to its userpage, it redirected to the VSTF member that originally owned the account. Upon checking the page history, it was the same one.

Ripto22475 was the original account, renamed to Riptoze, then renamed to Icier.

If one was to look at the date of the rename from Ripto22475 to Riptoze, it was done in December 2017.

This wouldn't make any sense, if the account Riptoze was disabled in December 2017, considering the registration date for the account Riptoze was in July 2018.

Unless the account was somehow recreated, this registration date is impossible. The account was recreated and reused.

Now a normal rename happens like this: Kuckoo to Anonminati. Note how the user IDs are different, but the registration date is the same.

Now if we take a look at Icier's registration date, August 8 2011, we can see that this is anomalous in the fact that the new account retains a different registration date to the account it was renamed from.

That would probably explain why everyone freaked out when Riptoze joined the chat in July 2018 and started spewing obscenities quite some time after Icier had renamed their account for a second time.

On an unrelated note, it seems the account Ripto22475 was completely wiped from the system after Riptoze was renamed to Icier. Like when DANASCAT renamed to TimmyQuivy, who has also been coincidentally wiped from the system, his username was totally cleared from having ever existed as far as the API is concerned. I won't say why this was done because it seems to be something everyone wants to forget.