Website Member Purge
For a number of reasons, our member list needed cleaning up. People who had never posted were deleted, as the only reason to sign up is so you can post comments. Users who registered within the last 8 months or so were left untouched, and we’ll likely purge again every few months. If you go to log in and it says you don’t exist, simply register again.
We are a small guild community, and it’s much easier to run things here when 99% of the users aren’t anonymous. Registering now will require use of your Neopets username and any active users are expected to list their user lookup URL as their website.
As always, non guild members are perfectly welcome to join us. 
If you want the long detailed story, we are getting hit with spam registrations, and many neopets users have for some reason thought listing their myspace site would get them noticed. The way Wordpress is set up behind the scenes, the subscriber list is tied with the admin list and thousands of names sitting idly on the list make our user admin page cumbersome.
There was no reason to be registered unless you wish to comment on posts like this one. Shortly we will have a brand new forum, and the userlist will be shared with this website. Thus when you’re logged into the forum, you will be logged in to the website as well and your username will be the same.
There are many reasons why we prefer for everyone not to hide behind an anonymous name, but in the new forum and here on the site you will be able to change your display name in your preferences. Requiring everyone to list the URL of their lookup as their website gives us the freedom to have fun with our display names (which you can change whenever you please!). There is an option in the forum to list extra websites; this is where you can add your personal sites for people to see.
With our new forum, it’s just going to be much easier behind the scenes not to have thousands of people registered who never even log in. It’s entirely possible that some names were purged by accident, but you can easily register again.
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Doh ~_~
Was trying to change my Book username to my WordPress username but seem to have messed up.
Who can I contact to get it sorted?
My WordPress is ASRAFRATE
My book database is ASGARD
I want to use Asrafrate for the book database as well, and transfer my pet MIKEXZ80012 over to Asrafrate. It won’t let me add MIKEXZ80012 because it says he’s already in the database.
Sorry for being a pain ^_^;
Comment by asrafrate — Saturday, November 25, 2006 @ 3:41 pm