How unhelpfully dismissive. Even if I was willing to let 13 years of content/memberships/friend-links/etc. be destroyed, do you honestly think I didn't try that?

I resurrected a 6-year-old account I had used as a throwaway, since it already had some qualifying age and karma, allowing me to to actually post in relevant help-subreddits. (For example, I posted a bug-report in /r/bugs.)

Yet within couple weeks, IT HAPPENED AGAIN: Totally vanilla usage leading to the exact same series of events, plunging the other account into the same inexplicable bugged state.

Do you have roommates or other people sharing your Internet connection?

It really, really sucks that reddit messed up your account. I've grown incredibly attached to some of my online personas and I'd be devastated if they were taken from me.

It's like my bewilderment when talking to people who think your comment history should be private. I want people to see who I am, and how I respond to different situations. Even those times when I've made mistakes and jumped to bad conclusions.