InsaneJournal Announcements

It's more than death; It's people who have moved on from IJ for whatever reason, but have left behind creative output that enhances the experiences of those currently on the site.

Such output is frequently viewed long after the person who posted them is no longer active on their journal. I frequently follow links to recommendations for items three or more years old. For those of us who are active and do look at those things they enhance our current experience on IJ. Those journals were there yesterday and they are gone today. There's no way to archive something that's already been deleted and there's no guarantee that person is around to set the account back to active.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not against purging user names to improve site performance. I'm not against purging journals that are empty and user names that are simply being held for no reason. I'm particularly not against purging spambot accounts. But accounts are being deleted that are not spambots, or empty, or user name squatting. These accounts have content that regardless of use by the owner was still used and enjoyed by others who currently use & frequently pay for their use on this site.

Purging these journals may hold benefits for the site, but even so, deleting journals with content does diminish the experiences of current & future site users (nothing more annoying than following a link to discover the journal has been deleted).

I'm not upset at the purging of accounts, but I am less than impressed with the administration.