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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.
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.
And they aren't being deleted just at request – if you actually read some of Squeaky's comments above, you'd see that this has to do with the actual administration and maintenance of the site itself. Unused journals are a problem from a technical standpoint.
It amazes me that people like you say "there was an easier way..." Really? How would you detect spambots then? Newsflash: spambots usually have entries! Unless you have some magical detection, only deleting spambots would require going by them one-by-one. And given that there are tens of thousands of them, that's a ridiculous expectation.
Bottom line: purges of inactive journals with old entries have occurred before and after the GJ move. If you didn't notice that, it's your problem. It's site policy. It takes 5 seconds to undelete a journal.