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No, I highly doubt 99 percent of these inactive accounts are created by bots given the high volume of emails my friends and I are getting over the last two days to save our already deleted journals. You definitely have a bot problem. I've seen the spam comments on old entries from journals and comms I've run. But that 99 percent number is definitely off. What you do have is a high number of role players on this server. People migrated here when gj went down because it was cheaper to play here, and well you were someone who seemed more fandom friendly than the original server that kept changing owners. We moved our games here. We finished some games and moved on to others. We may not log into those old accounts anymore, but it doesn't mean the writing isn't something we want preserved.
I have no doubt what so ever that thousands of rpers who want the BEST USERNAME EVER to go play in a game for two weeks before that game dies and a new one exactly like it pops up, would like it if you purged accounts not logged into every six months. Trading and selling usernames has always been big business on this server. Which, fair enough, but are those five dollar retokens really worth pissing off people who used to buy paid and permanent accounts from you because they believed in you? If so, please carry on. You're not going to be able to please everyone, so you may as well please yourself and the majority of users you feel want this. If this is what you feel you need to do to extend a shelf life on this place, it's your call.
Just like it's my call to not register more accounts. To buy paid accounts at a server I do believe in now. One who doesn't allow the making of cash on trading usernames more important than preserving user content. Don't pretend that while I don't run a server like you do, that I don't get the business aspect of it. I've been writing on servers for a long time, Squeaky. I'm also one of those who always, always, financially supported the sites I'm using bandwidth on. For years I threw cash at your site just like I did to LJ before you. Then there comes a time when I can no longer reconcile the business decisions that are being made, and as a consumer I decide what to do with my money. I seriously doubt the site my group migrated too took business away from here because they don't offer 100 free icons and username trading. What they do offer is making sure user content is protected at all costs. I used to feel you offered the same.
Good luck in keeping it afloat. I've said my peace. I'll save what I can and archive it before the next purge comes up. But as you got those thousands of emails begging for more renames so they can get trading spaces rocking and rolling again for profit, I figured you deserved to know the other opinion of people who tried keeping this place afloat for you too. I'm irritated and disappointed, but I do understand you gotta do what you gotta do.
Just like I do.
I have no doubt what so ever that thousands of rpers who want the BEST USERNAME EVER to go play in a game for two weeks before that game dies and a new one exactly like it pops up, would like it if you purged accounts not logged into every six months. Trading and selling usernames has always been big business on this server. Which, fair enough, but are those five dollar retokens really worth pissing off people who used to buy paid and permanent accounts from you because they believed in you? If so, please carry on. You're not going to be able to please everyone, so you may as well please yourself and the majority of users you feel want this. If this is what you feel you need to do to extend a shelf life on this place, it's your call.
Just like it's my call to not register more accounts. To buy paid accounts at a server I do believe in now. One who doesn't allow the making of cash on trading usernames more important than preserving user content. Don't pretend that while I don't run a server like you do, that I don't get the business aspect of it. I've been writing on servers for a long time, Squeaky. I'm also one of those who always, always, financially supported the sites I'm using bandwidth on. For years I threw cash at your site just like I did to LJ before you. Then there comes a time when I can no longer reconcile the business decisions that are being made, and as a consumer I decide what to do with my money. I seriously doubt the site my group migrated too took business away from here because they don't offer 100 free icons and username trading. What they do offer is making sure user content is protected at all costs. I used to feel you offered the same.
Good luck in keeping it afloat. I've said my peace. I'll save what I can and archive it before the next purge comes up. But as you got those thousands of emails begging for more renames so they can get trading spaces rocking and rolling again for profit, I figured you deserved to know the other opinion of people who tried keeping this place afloat for you too. I'm irritated and disappointed, but I do understand you gotta do what you gotta do.
Just like I do.