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Username Purge

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Username Purge

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We are officially beginning our next username purge immediately. We are going to be setting any account that has been inactive since January 1st, 2010 to a deleted status. The accounts will have a 2 week period before their accounts are purged via the normal nightly purge process. We will not be posting a time when this purge will occur, nor will we be posting a list of purged accounts. If you receive an email stating your account was deleted, you have 2 weeks to log in and undelete the account. Please be aware that even though you don't see any posts or comments on an account, activity can be as simple as logging into the site or looking at your friends' page.

As asylums do not have an associated email address and usage is not as easily tracked, we are not going to include them in this purge. As always if you find an asylum that is inactive and you would like to take over maintainership, open a support request as there is a process to handle this.

These will be handled on a case by case and first come first serve basis.
  • Unfortunately, that's their decision. The site has never made any guarantees about inactive content, and their failure to preserve it for whatever reason is their burden to bear. If they choose not to undelete their journals because they're busy, it's no different than letting an egg spoil because you'd rather go out drinking with your friends, IMO.

    But you can undelete it, make the content viewable, and save it.

    No, that doesn't mean that the content is underappreciated or value, but there's no absolute right to view it if the author has no desire to make it available to you any longer. This is not very different than Geocities in that respect.

    Then I suggest that people contact the individuals involved... Any purge will inevitably cause some inconvenience. It's a cost-benefit situation.
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