RE: My Steemit Saga, part 2
Actually, you are wrong. She sought out help well before. The reason you remember this case so well is that I tried to assist her in recovery only a few days after her last use of the password. She and I reached out to @dantheman, and you can see he made promises, but ignored her.
What @fairytalelife could explain better in her post is that she had the password all along. She (and I) tried the working, now proven, password many times in the recovery option, well within the 30 day window.
If someone from steemit had looked into this issue, she could have recovered her account easily.
Knowing that she had the correct password at hand, I would have tried it in the CLI with the get_private_key_from_password command, but I assumed, erroneously, that the recovery field worked as advertised. But the recovery field did not work. I conclude now that it was broken.
The developers at steemit should have looked into their own code and found that it was not working. I implored them to try to look at the code at that time but got nowhere. If I had known the recovery field was broken, I would have tried direct key recovery myself.
That's an issue between her and steemit then. They should definitely reimburse her if that's the case. Too bad the code wasn't open at that time.
But she held the community accountable with this post. We can't remove the 30 day limit, and she knows why. I wouldn't have commented like this if she asked for money nicely, but that's all anyone here can do for her.
I don't see where she holds the "community" accountable. Maybe I misread it. I believe she mentions @dantheman in her post. By "no one would help me", it is pretty clear she means no one at steemit.
In the last sentence
The community has always offered help. She decided to try her luck with STINC first. Anyone of us could've told her that's a mistake, but of course it seemed like the logical way for her. That's happened and can't be changed, no one in the community can help any more.
Also,
is a valid answer to her situation regarding the technical background, if she wants to hear it or not. Just keeping on pushing for a change that can't happen is not helping.
@phareism, by community, I meant those that could have helped - the ones who created the whole idea of the steemit community to begin with. I never asked for handouts.
Okay, that was misleading.
Still, the change you proposed isn't possible, and there's really nothing anyone could do. Except Steemit Inc. reimbursing when they admit it's their fault (and at least @dan has responsibility for letting you stand in the rain).
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