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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 just bought a rename token for an account that was deleted 14 days ago and was set to be purged today. Do you know when I'll be able to use the token?
    • Purges happen once a day at about 3am. If it has not been purged today, please check tomorow.
      • sorry for butting in, but is that 3am est or gmt or something else? i've noticed that the website seems to be running on gmt where, for example gj, was on pst. thank you!
        • Yes the server is on GMT. I when ahead and manually did the purge.
          • i'm asking because the username i really want to use my token for is still deleted, not purged. and i'm on gmt+1, so my concerns are if you're doing the purges at around 3am eastern standard time, because then it means that i'd have to be up before 9am if i want to get the username before someone else does. or if the purges happen at 3am gmt, because then it's 4am here. i hope i'm making sense.
            • Yeah, check your username now, it should be purged.
              • i just checked and it still says it's only deleted, unfortunately. :-(
                • Crap .. tahnks for letting me know, I need to restart something .. check now
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