What does that mean?

[Cherrymage]

What does that mean, when the "user icon" of a user's post has gone, and the "Friends" section gone?

Example

 

[sonofjay]

He doesn't have a user icon and he disabled his friend list. You can choose what to show in your "Profile Privacy".

 

[Heinvers]

Surprisingly enough these ones don't appear in the Members List, as if they'd not exist.

 

[sonofjay]

He's a ghost.

 

[Heinvers]

He's not the only one without one. As if the site does not recognize their Registered Member status.

Same goes for HOooDy, Thrikodius among others.

 

[sonofjay]

Then they're Ghosts!

Or maybe they're not just active enough or that Hive just love to troll sometimes. Good old hive have the rights to also have some fun!

 

[Deathcom3s]

Heh, who knows. Might be related to some tables that might have been corrupted in the DB during the server transfers/DB migration that happened around a year ago (from what I can see it happened around a year to 2 years ago, I was still inactive back then, so who knows).

 

[fladdermasken]

What does that mean, when the "user icon" of a user's post has gone, and the "Friends" section gone?

Example

Not sure if intentional. But I'm pretty sure the accounts are pending e-mail verification, probably because they changed their e-mail details in the profile field and didn't validate the new one.

 

[Cherrymage]

Now Heinver's avatar and user icon also gone......

 

[Heinvers]

No worries, was just testing fladder's theory.

It proved right.

 

[sonofjay]

For some reason that attached image made me laugh.