Just a slight correction :)
"You also can do it this way if you were signed up with anonsteem, but there is a more effective way to do it, IF YOU WERE SIGNED UP USING ANONSTEEM."
You can't use the Steemit account recovery system if you didn't sign up via Steemit. If you used Anonsteem, the only way to recover your account is to contact me (email on the bottom of anonsteem).
When an account is created, a "trustee" is set to the account which created it, e.g. @anonsteem for accounts made using AnonSteem, or @steem for Steemit.com accounts. This trustee is the only account which is able to recover your account. No other account. So if it's made via anonsteem, only anonsteem can recover it, not steemit.
I don't know why they don't reject accounts when you enter them on there, a lot of people wait weeks for recovery from there, only to find out that steemit wasn't responsible, and now it's past the 30 day window and they've lost their account.
Change your password at least every 30 days!!
I believe my original article was wrong about this. When the owner key is changed (e.g. using change password), there is a 30 day window to initiate recovery using ANY previous owner key or password.
30 days after a password is changed, the recovery process is blocked, this is to protect against a hacker attempting to recover your account, and also to protect you against a malicious trustee agent. For example, after 30 days, you will actually be able to change your trustee to someone else such as steem, allowing you to recover your account using their service, instead of AnonSteem, or give it to a technical friend who you trust to recover your account.
How to change your trustee (by @themarkymark): https://steemit.com/steemit/@themarkymark/how-to-change-your-recovery-account
Ok, thanks for this! I will update the post with this info.
It's very interesting to know, because when I initiated recovery that way, it said someone would contact me and I still haven't heard anything back from them... glad I am not still waiting for that!