This post is mostly for information about the accidental account lock, not about the XML view of the homenode.
Just a note here: The most likely reason the chatterbot account was locked was that the Monastery did *exactly* what we would expect under those circumstances. Let me explain:
chatterbot is Level 1: Initiate with no posts. It shouldn't have the ability to have a homenode image (yet it does) and has other limitations. According to jdporter/erzuuli, low/no XP can trigger autolocking under certain circumstances like putting in external URLs. This limits the ability to use the homenode feature for link farming etc, a measure i fully approve.
I just totally forgot that these and similar measures are in place. When i was updating my pagecamel framework (webserver, workers, etc) on the XPD server, i ran into a couple of bugs with the custom "Register" function. So i tried to register chatterbot as XPD user, which includes the step of temporarily putting an ID string into your homenode to verify that it is really your PerlMonks account. The homenode updated, triggered the autolocking feature and the rest is history.
Exactly what of this update triggered the autolock is still not clear to me.
If you have something similar happen to you, best way to solve it is to contact gods to get the account unlocked.
This doesn't really affect user who want to play around with XPD, since the minimums for registration i impose should be way above XP and writeup criterium for the "this is a new spam account" autolocking trigger.
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