How I lost my avatar and needed to re-subscribe

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The user experienced access issues on PF after changing their email address, receiving a message indicating insufficient privileges for various actions. Despite contacting the admin for assistance, the problem persisted, prompting a re-subscription with a new userid, which resulted in the loss of their avatar. Avatars are now reserved for contributors, and older members who had avatars before a recent policy change could retain them unless they made changes. The situation is identified as a potential error on PF's part that requires resolution. The user expressed gratitude for the support in addressing the issue.
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Some while ago I edited my prefile and changed my e-mail address to PF e-mail address.

About the same time I started receiving the following message whenever I attempted to do anything other than read messages on PF:

vBulletin Message said:
EnumaElish, you do not have permission to access this page. This could be due to one of several reasons:

1. Your user account may not have sufficient privileges to access this page. Are you trying to edit someone else's post, access administrative features or some other privileged system?
2. If you are trying to post, the administrator may have disabled your account, or it may be awaiting activation.

I sent a couple of e-mails to admin alerting them to the situation. When the message continued to appear, I re-subscribed with a "plain" userid. My old userid had an avatar, which I cannot use now.
 
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Avatars are now available to contributors. Older members that had avatars prior to the revision before last were allowed to keep their avatars unless they made changes, at that point the avatar would disappear.
 
EnumaElish joined on 7/4/05, so could not have been the beneficiary of keeping an old avatar before contributor status was necessary. Indeed, EnumaElish was a contributor. This is some strange kind of error on PF's part that needs to be ironed out.

Enuma, I am going to bring this to Greg's attention, and hopefully we can get everything back to normal for you.
 
Thanks, that's nice of you.
 
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EnumaElish said:
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Excellent!

Thank you, PF!
 
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