Background

So logged on to SA a week ago, and it took me to homepage full of guys.  Shocked of course.  Clicked on search, and girls. Clicked on home again, dudes.

Assumption  

Site is hacked

Action  

Try to deactivate (which I have done before), and no response (usually you get a response about surety). Nothing. Now sure hacked.

Clicked delete profile (again did this once before intentionally) and no response.  Normally you get a message about how this is undoable, and are you sure - none of that.

Result  

Next day, account deleted, and no meaningful response from support.  Tried logging in again, and need to selfie identify.

Question  

If selfie identified, as premium:

1. do you need a public picture (if so, how many), or can you hide as before  
2. Can you remove yourself from search via settings  

Thanks

I can't answer your 2 questions.  But I can say that when my account got hacked, and I thought it was Seeking's website that got hacked, Herb assured me that could not be the case.  He said these websites have massive, pro level security to prevent getting hacked, and that therefore, the hack was most likely of one of my own devices I use for accessing Seeking.  In my case, some unauthorized person gained the ability to use my account and sent hundreds of spam messages to women.  Of course I was the one who got banned!  

I’ve been using my Seeking account daily and have not had a problem.

Are you still banned from Seeking Sweetman?  

 
If not, how did you get back on?  

 
I've heard it's difficult to open a new account on Seeking after being banned while others say it was easy.  

 
It seems to me with photo ID search/scan it would be nearly impossible.

I've been banned a couple of times.  The first time  was really traumatic for me since  they were unwilling to even discuss the possibility of reinstating me.  I wound up finding Brandon Wade on Facebook and sending him a personal appeal to allow me to create a new profile.  The most recent time it happened,  I informed Seeking that the bad behavior which resulted in my account being terminated was not my doing, it was the hacker who had somehow accessed my account.  They invited me to create a new profile, using a new email address and screen name.  Which I did.  I used all new photos just to be on the safe side, but I re-used the same profile text I had used before.  I also started 2FA, using my new email address to receive the one time code each time I log in.  When I created this newest, current profile, they had already changed their policy on screen names.  Your real first name or nickname was required, so I am now known on Seeking by my first name, not a made up screen name like "Sweetman" which I had used previously.   Since creating my new profile, they have begun their photo verification process.  I am now photo verified.  If I ever need to create yet another new profile, I suspect it will be obvious that I'm the same person.  So they would have to agree to allow me to make a new profile, I would not be able to do so anonymously.  Hope this helps.

Glad to hear you got back on, Sweetman! I've not been banned yet, but hope it doesn't happen as the other sugar sites don't seem to be as good, according to the comments of others I've read here and in other forums.