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[info]squeaky
3/24/09 03:26 pm
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To anyone who received a notification that their account had been deactivated, we misworded the email stating that your account had been inactive for 2 years. In reality we used the date 01-01-2008 as our cut off point for inactivity. We apologize of the inconvenience.
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  • [info]greenwitch
    3/24/09 03:45 pm (UTC)
    Ha! I was wondering about that (I haven't even been here 2 years, LOL.)

    Doesn't matter though, the journal I got the notification for was for an asylum I never got off the ground so deletion is fine.

  • [info]arcady
    3/24/09 03:47 pm (UTC)
    Will you be doing more purges? One of the names I want is literally unused since 1-02-08.

  • [info]book
    3/24/09 03:59 pm (UTC)
    do you count inactivity as a journal having NEVER been used? or a journal that hasn't been used/logged into since that time period?

  • [info]lrodell
    3/24/09 04:30 pm (UTC)
    That was SLIGHTLY ALARMING, campers! O.o;;
    --also, my account has *not* been inactive for two years, as anyone who checks the actual 'recent entries' can see! If the frequency with which people *browse* their InJs without *posting* or *commenting* got factored in, there's lots of people who are here on a regular basis! Thank you, though, for the apology about the letters; it's a nice, uncommon thing.

    • [info]arcady
      3/24/09 04:44 pm (UTC)
      I don't think you read anything Squeaky said. If you log in to your account, it's considered active. You don't have to post or comment.

  • [info]ardath_rekha
    3/24/09 05:32 pm (UTC)
    Why is this affecting communities? I was under the impression, after the last username purge, that this sort of thing only affected individual accounts. I know of several communities that I was a member of, which apparently are now being purged, even though they have posts that I participated in and would have liked to continue to have access to in them. It seems a bit inappropriate to be doing this to accounts that have actual content in them. Empty journals, I have no problems with, but deleting things with content in them? What if you delete the journal of someone who's deceased, where it's one of the last tangible connections their friends have with them? I really think that's wrong on a huge number of levels.

    • [info]vanquish
      3/24/09 05:42 pm (UTC)
      This +1

    • (Anonymous)
      3/24/09 06:17 pm (UTC)
      I'm sorry if a comm you were in might be at risk, but unless you are the maintainer of the comm, you'd always be at risk of losing that information (either by a purge or through the moderator of the game deciding to delete it one day). If it's truly important to you, you should back up EVERYTHING and never rely on a third party to maintain it for you.

    • [info]theentwife
      3/24/09 07:48 pm (UTC)
      Agreed -- deleting journals/asylums that have content in them is a bad thing.

      Also, will permanent accounts that haven't been logged into/updated be purged too? The above suggests that might occur.


      Persephone

  • [info]swtalmnd
    3/24/09 05:43 pm (UTC)
    Some of my asylums that I moderate seem to have vanished, but I haven't received a notification -- they've just gone poof. How can I get them back? They had content on them that I wanted to keep. :(

  • [info]aristoboule
    3/24/09 08:15 pm (UTC)
    One of my communities totally got blasted out. But the deletion of [info]premium_users is quite hilarious.

  • [info]thorburne
    3/25/09 12:40 am (UTC)
    In my opinion, purging communities is really screwed up. Someone else said it and I'll second it. One of the biggest pull and the most activity on insanejournal is roleplaying. When a game dies or finishes, it will go inactive, but we don't get to save the threads that we've done because of that? Unless someone can direct me to something otherwise, nothing I've found saves comments when you archive journal entries. That was one of the biggest disappointments about greatestjournal dying to me. We lost all of our writing and all of our hard work. People came to insanejournal to escape the problems of greatestjournal and livejournal. I really hope you reconsider purging the communities.

  • [info]perfica
    3/25/09 02:22 am (UTC)
    I have a permanent individual account and I'm the maintainer of three communities. I received notification that one of my comms was deleted due to inactivity so I changed the account status back to active and everything is back to normal. But -

    1) I was under the impression (from other comments in this post) that permanent accounts shouldn't have been affected?
    2) I'm always logged in

  • [info]blowbacks
    3/25/09 09:58 am (UTC)
    i was just wondering if you could tell me, will there be an exact time/date that the journals would all be purged at? thanks for doing this again! :*

  • [info]madfilkentist
    3/25/09 03:25 pm (UTC)
    My last post was April 11, 2008, yet I got a deactivation notice.

  • [info]stewardess
    3/25/09 04:43 pm (UTC)
    Are permanent accounts getting notices?

  • [info]ex_fix204
    3/26/09 06:56 pm (UTC)
    i'm just wondering if there is a list somewhere of all the journals that will be deleted in the purge?

  • (Anonymous)
    3/27/09 06:55 pm (UTC)
    So how do we undelete a journal that has been deleted?

  • [info]lilymunster
    3/27/09 07:55 pm (UTC)
    i logged in and changed one of my accounts that i got an email about, back to active from deleted, however now i've changed my mind again because i definitely won't be using it. if i redelete it now, will you still purge it.
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