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Miswording in notification emails

squeaky

3/24/09 03:26 pm

To anyone who received a notification that their account had been deactivated, we misworded the email stating that your account had been inactive for 2 years. In reality we used the date 01-01-2008 as our cut off point for inactivity. We apologize of the inconvenience.

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• ardath_rekha

  3/24/09 05:32 pm (UTC)

  

  Why is this affecting communities? I was under the impression, after the last username purge, that this sort of thing only affected individual accounts. I know of several communities that I was a member of, which apparently are now being purged, even though they have posts that I participated in and would have liked to continue to have access to in them. It seems a bit inappropriate to be doing this to accounts that have actual content in them. Empty journals, I have no problems with, but deleting things with content in them? What if you delete the journal of someone who's deceased, where it's one of the last tangible connections their friends have with them? I really think that's wrong on a huge number of levels.

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  • vanquish

    3/24/09 05:42 pm (UTC)

    

    This +1

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  • (Anonymous)

    3/24/09 06:17 pm (UTC)

    I'm sorry if a comm you were in might be at risk, but unless you are the maintainer of the comm, you'd always be at risk of losing that information (either by a purge or through the moderator of the game deciding to delete it one day). If it's truly important to you, you should back up EVERYTHING and never rely on a third party to maintain it for you.

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    • ardath_rekha

      3/24/09 08:19 pm (UTC)

      

      That's a risk everybody has to live with, but even then, it's acknowledged to be bad form, and people who make a practice of it end up with nobody willing to friend/post to their journals. Up until now I felt very strongly in favor of IJ as a safe place to post things for posterity, but that just got severely damaged. Sometimes communities run their course and go inactive, but that doesn't mean that the people who participated in them no longer care, and no longer count. Given that it's NOT the mods/maintainers making this decision, it's still wrong.

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      • squeaky

        3/25/09 07:28 am (UTC)

        

        We are going to reactivate all the deleted asylums.

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        • ardath_rekha

          3/25/09 11:03 am (UTC)

          

          Thank you. That totally resolves the issues for me. :)

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    • veracity

      3/25/09 01:02 am (UTC)

      

      I AM the maintainer of two asylums that haven't been updated since October 2007, due to a) not writing or organizing the content because of b) full-time college. I don't think it was right to have mine deactivated since they have caps I can't retake in one and fic that's over here and maybe hard to find in my LJ. That's obviously been used before and has content in it.

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  • theentwife

    3/24/09 07:48 pm (UTC)

    

    Agreed -- deleting journals/asylums that have content in them is a bad thing.
    
    Also, will permanent accounts that haven't been logged into/updated be purged too? The above suggests that might occur.
    
    
    Persephone

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    • squeaky

      3/24/09 07:52 pm (UTC)

      

      No, accounts with a paid status are exempt from being purged.

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