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Username Purge

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Username Purge

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We are officially beginning our next username purge immediately. We are going to be setting any account that has been inactive since January 1st, 2010 to a deleted status. The accounts will have a 2 week period before their accounts are purged via the normal nightly purge process. We will not be posting a time when this purge will occur, nor will we be posting a list of purged accounts. If you receive an email stating your account was deleted, you have 2 weeks to log in and undelete the account. Please be aware that even though you don't see any posts or comments on an account, activity can be as simple as logging into the site or looking at your friends' page.

As asylums do not have an associated email address and usage is not as easily tracked, we are not going to include them in this purge. As always if you find an asylum that is inactive and you would like to take over maintainership, open a support request as there is a process to handle this.

These will be handled on a case by case and first come first serve basis.
  • Well I'm certainly confused. I just got one of those emails, yet there are plenty of entries after the given date, and more than a handful this year. How does that count as being inactive?

    My account was still showing as active, so I "changed" the status to reiterate that, but now I wonder if I'm going to have to keep checking over the next two weeks (assuming I remember to) and change it back for real this time simply because mine hasn't been gotten to you to mark it for deletion.

    Is it because I use Semagic to make my posts? But then, that does log you into the account. It couldn't make entries otherwise. It seems whatever it being used to determine which accounts are inactive isn't entirely up to par for the job.
    • Look at the body of the email, it was probably referencing another account.
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