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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.
  • Agreed on the part of having captcha codes in order to even create a journal, since IMO that'd solve a fair chunk of the problem right there. Hopefully it's something that can be implemented in the future so these purges would become a thing of the past and the site could run smoothly in the future. Would love to see this happen, Squeaky! ^_^
    • We have a captcha to create a journal, but modern OCR render them mostly usless.
      • There are captchas that require a person to read them - like "What is the opposite of bad?" with a blank space. That ought to slow spammers down for a while, at least.
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