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[info]squeaky
5/13/11 08:11 am
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This is going to take probable 3-4 weeks to get all of the inactive accounts as there are a lot of them and I don't want to kill the servers doing this.

As always you can see what usernames are available here.

http://www.insanejournal.com/purged_usernames.bml
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  • [info]book
    5/13/11 08:56 pm (UTC)
    Deleted does not mean purged though. He gives very clear instructions into how to restore the account, and once you do that you can let it sit there another year and a half without touching it and it won't be effected until the next purge. You can restore it and walk away and save the fruits of your labor whenever you get around to it. There is no need to save it in the next 14 days. All you need to do is change it from Deleted to Activated and you're good to go.

    Why is it the site owners responsibility to judge what is worth holding onto? I've received 6 emails in the last hour about old accounts being deleted, and honestly it's a reminder to me of what's worth holding onto and what I don't need anymore. The data is important, sure. It's a part of the site. What the real issue is is what the purpose of the site is, which all, again, goes back to interaction. Your data may be important to you, but it stopped being a part of the community when you stopped being willing to interact with it. When you stopped logging in. Your data is still affecting the community and the website and it's servers, and is a cause of sacrifice for other users who are here now and want their content to be maintained on a website that works. Why should anything or anyone or any website have to sit and wait for you to be interested in it again?

    All you have to do is change the account to Activated and everything is fine. It's as easy as logging in in the last year and five months would have been, but apparently it's too much to ask. How is it not fair for you to ask ~squeaky to maintain your data when all he asks of you in return is that you log in and show that you are still a part of the community?

    I really just want to let this go and agree to disagree, but at the same I feel like you are upset not because of the process, but because you're being inconvenienced. Be mindful and aware of the impact your data has on the website as a whole, log in and show that you are still a part of the community and would like to give people the opportunity to access your data, and there would never be a problem with your journals in the first place. This is not a data storage website, this is a blogging website with a community of real people, that is supported through ad revenue, money, electricity, time and energy spent by ~squeaky, and the interaction of the members of this site.
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