You actually may have done both. I joined for the first time, I believe more than 12 years ago. When I came back, I remembered my user id (ckcwolf) but couldn't remember my old password - and my email and physical address had changed several times. Rather than contacting the administrators to help me re-activate the old account, and explaining that I couldn't remember what info I had used to open it - I just decided to "start fresh."
I've worked with customer identification software and the computer coding - and can tell you that even small differences in data can prevent customer id software from recognizing you as the same person. If you went through the registration process and entered all the same data (exactly identically) the system would recognize you as the same person who registered a year ago - but if there were minor differences, the differences could be enough for the programs to not recognize you as that person. For example if your address, email address or phone number had changed.
I don't know if my old user id is still valid, but I couldn't access it unless I remembered my old password or the information I used to open the account. I'm guessing I could also re-register at any time using a slightly different username, and just by varying the registration information become (as far as 3FC is concerned) two different people (or I guess if ckcwolf is still active, technically 3 people).
Last edited by kaplods; 10-17-2011 at 10:39 PM.
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