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I am starting the process to purge old inactive accounts immediatly. We are defining inactive accounts as accounts who have not had any activity in the past 2 years.
In the first phase I am going to immediately set the status of any inactive accounts who are not validated to deleted. This will give the account owners a period of two weeks to log in and set the accounts back to active. Since these accounts are not validated we do not have a reliable email address to contact the account owner with.
The second part of the first phase will involve emailing any validated but inactive accounts and warning them that their accounts will be set to deleted status in two weeks.
The second phase will occur in two weeks. The first part will be when the deleted accounts are automatically purged and the second part will be to set the status of any inactive but validated accounts to deleted.
The third phase will take place two weeks after phase 2 when the phase 2 deleted accounts are automatically purged by the system.
We will NOT include Self-Committed[paid] or Permanently Insane accounts in the account purge.
What this means is that when an account is purged, it is immediately available for use by an existing account via the use of a rename token. Rename tokens are available in the InsaneJournal Store for $5. If you have any questions or concerns with this process, please raise them in the comments to this post.
In the first phase I am going to immediately set the status of any inactive accounts who are not validated to deleted. This will give the account owners a period of two weeks to log in and set the accounts back to active. Since these accounts are not validated we do not have a reliable email address to contact the account owner with.
The second part of the first phase will involve emailing any validated but inactive accounts and warning them that their accounts will be set to deleted status in two weeks.
The second phase will occur in two weeks. The first part will be when the deleted accounts are automatically purged and the second part will be to set the status of any inactive but validated accounts to deleted.
The third phase will take place two weeks after phase 2 when the phase 2 deleted accounts are automatically purged by the system.
We will NOT include Self-Committed[paid] or Permanently Insane accounts in the account purge.
What this means is that when an account is purged, it is immediately available for use by an existing account via the use of a rename token. Rename tokens are available in the InsaneJournal Store for $5. If you have any questions or concerns with this process, please raise them in the comments to this post.
Any journals before 2006 that haven't been active will probably be considered in this, I am assuming. The last two years is to show if the user has been active on InsaneJournal or not. So if there's an inactive, un-validated journal from 2003, it will likely be purged (from what I understand).
Again though - thank you for the answer to the second half! :)
However, you can not buy rename tokens and 'save' the name you want to rename as. You can only use a token when the journal is actually purged. So there's no reserve list or anything.