Purging Old Inactive Accounts
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.
Thank you anyway.
*refrains from spreading rumours*
(I still think it's a good idea. You gotta keep the site clean somehow.)
What if a person has a free account, makes a few posts in it, then dies (and a family member could send you a copy of the death notice for validation)? Could that journal be left up in perpetuity?
This is not about me or DH, as we both have permanent accounts; but someone else dear to me, well, I'd want to be sure his would never go away, even if he didn't post much.
Trust me, I'm all for the owners having the right to cover their butts, but I think that if the journal owner isn't paying for a journal here (in one way or another), the site doesn't really owe them anything if they aren't using the journal. You get what you pay for, after all.
Just because InsaneJournal refuses to delete active accounts doesn't mean it supports journal hoarding. The term actively means "holding onto a journal and never using it; keeping it for the name" roughly. If a user posts in it, even if it's every other year or so, it's still considered active.
This deletion/purge is to clear up all the journals made in the earlier years of the site before it got popular. Not everyone will be pleased by this move, but for every one person pissed off I'm willing to bet there are ten glad they have a chance at a nicer username. It's just the way it rolls.
I was asking if you supported the idea, not IJ. Also, it may just be my personal opinion, but I hardly call making a post saying that while you're never going to use an account ever again, but you're still keeping it being "active".
Yes, because those other ten are going to have a chance at the one they want because they've been watching the journal and no one has posted just to keep it so far.
Obviously we don't agree with each other. Let's just keep it at that. Thanks.