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In fact you are wrong about the reasons this is being done.
There are two reasons this is being done, the first is that 99% of these inactive accounts were created by bots to be used as spam accounts. This takes up a lot of resources on the servers and, as you probably know resources cost money. Freeing up this space is going to allow us to continue to operate at the current cost structure and not be forced into decisions like permanent account sales, which we are committing to running less of (maybe 2 times a year at most).
The second reason this is being done is at the request of the users. Over the past 18 months we have gotten literally thousands of requests to purge inactive accounts. As you know, I have always been one to listen to the community and give them what they want (within reason).
Please don't think you understand everything it takes to run a site with over a million accounts. It is very expensive and the fact that some other sites that had funding ahead of time to do it the way we always wanted to have popped up and taken a lot of our traffic away has hurt us. This means that to keep this place up and running we need to keep costs at a reasonable level. It is very, very expensive to run a cluster of dedicated servers.
I am committed to doing everything that I can to keep this place above water. And this is going to go a long way to help make that happen. I am sorry if you don't see it that way.
There are two reasons this is being done, the first is that 99% of these inactive accounts were created by bots to be used as spam accounts. This takes up a lot of resources on the servers and, as you probably know resources cost money. Freeing up this space is going to allow us to continue to operate at the current cost structure and not be forced into decisions like permanent account sales, which we are committing to running less of (maybe 2 times a year at most).
The second reason this is being done is at the request of the users. Over the past 18 months we have gotten literally thousands of requests to purge inactive accounts. As you know, I have always been one to listen to the community and give them what they want (within reason).
Please don't think you understand everything it takes to run a site with over a million accounts. It is very expensive and the fact that some other sites that had funding ahead of time to do it the way we always wanted to have popped up and taken a lot of our traffic away has hurt us. This means that to keep this place up and running we need to keep costs at a reasonable level. It is very, very expensive to run a cluster of dedicated servers.
I am committed to doing everything that I can to keep this place above water. And this is going to go a long way to help make that happen. I am sorry if you don't see it that way.