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Purging Old Inactive Accounts

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Purging Old Inactive Accounts

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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.
  • i see this! and i wouldn't have a problem keeping you if i planned on using this as a personal account, but i'm really hoping to use it for some sort of rp thing which makes it slightly difficult :( if you could help out that'd be great
    • And you are currently unable to remove me by clicking delete in the second section? That's odd. You can try going to the admin console and inputting the following:

      friend remove persecution

      Let me know if that removes me? :)
      • it says "persecution removed from friends list" and i've used the second section several times, but you're still there on that list! haha, it's so odd.
        • Try doing
          friend remove saku
          friend remove ceruleagos
          And let me see if that works?
          • that worked!
            • Awesome. It's a strange bug where it lists my user name as previous ones before the rename, sigh. So I just had to figure out which ones were my older usernames when I had you friended.

              Glad I was able to help out in the end.
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