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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.
*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.