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You actually can't change your email without verifying it first. And even if you could, that wouldn't work anyway, since your password isn't changed until you actually get the email, and change it yourself. And even then, you'd also need to make sure you log out in every single computer/browser, as you can change your password without knowing it.


You'd have to make a new email, slamming your face into the keyboard to pick a password and security question, change your email to that, then log out of the email so you can't access it, then slam your face into the keyboard some more, to change your zam password, and log out.

Somewhere on the order of 182,000 registered accounts +/-. The vast majority of those will never post in the forums. That doesn't include any accounts that were only in the 7 year ago UBB forums, and does include at least 4,000 spammer accounts. I have no hard numbers for the forums, but on average the FFXIV forum currently has the most active users, followed by FFXI, then Wow, the OOT, then Asylum. There is a large "floater" population that exists out in the various server forums and subforums at any given time. Also, the populations do cross over. Many of the FFXIV people also activly brows FFXI, so its not a strictly additive number.

On a very busy day these days there will be about 1,600 people browsing the forums as a whole at any one time. During peak several years ago, we would top 3k, peaking to 6K occasionally. Average prime time numbers are usually closer to 1,200 these days though. Several factors contributed to the decline, a huge one being work site filtering software, also the server issues, the merger, the DDOS, etc. our numbers are trending up, not down though which is a good thing.

Edit: those numbers also don't include any of the other network sites, like Wowhead which also has a very large forum.

Edited, Nov 15th 2010 11:29pm by Kaolian

Can you make "Kirby" filter to "@#%^ing Awesome"?

Edited, Nov 16th 2010 12:36am by Kirby

Thanks Psycotic. It seems I'm slacking these days.
I'm #137

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That would be angsty.

Not 100% true. I banned all of China and all of Moscow.

Do the Admin and mods here have a Code to follow?
Like be nice and neutral and not take sides in things?

The forum I mod also has a "No holds Barred" forum. With the exception of trashing the mods and certain things like racism and such. The mods dont do much to it but watch. Getting involved with the discussions is never advisable and not a wise idea.

Obligatory lame asking for admin notes goes here.

How many posts does ZAM get on the average day?

Admin Note: posts are usually variants on "I am gay."

Angstycoder came vividly to my attention when he came on-board. He asked for suggestion/requests from the posters, and responded quickly to several of them.

DEAR ADMIN:

1. What is your favourite movie?
2. What is your favourite piece of music?
3. What is your favourite book/comic/anime?
4. What is your favourite TV show?
5. What is one of your best memories from general life?

Edited, Nov 16th 2010 5:36am by Aripyanfar

What's Timelordwho's karma?

Who have I rated down most?

Edited, Nov 16th 2010 11:50am by Kavekk