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PSA - deletion of old lj accounts
May. 20th, 2013 10:13 amhttp://lj-releases.livejournal.com/82710.html
Deletion of old accounts
With this release, we're making a change to the criteria used for removing old, inactive accounts. Accounts which have posted two entries or fewer will now be considered inactive, instead of just journals with zero entries. An account will be defined as inactive if ALL of the following criteria are true:
The account has 2 or fewer entries posted to it.
The account has not been logged into (or posted to for communities) in the last 2 years.
The account is not a Paid or Permanent account.
The account is not in a Memorial or Locked status.
An email will be sent to the current email address for any account which will be affected by this. The owner of any such account can prevent their account from being deleted by logging into or posting to that account. After two weeks, if no action has been taken, the account will be marked as deleted and the account owner will be notified again. Once deleted, the owner will still have 30 days to login to the account to undelete their account. After 30 days, the account is purged and the username will become available for anyone to use through http://www.livejournal.com/shop/renameaccount.bml.
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Deletion of old accounts
With this release, we're making a change to the criteria used for removing old, inactive accounts. Accounts which have posted two entries or fewer will now be considered inactive, instead of just journals with zero entries. An account will be defined as inactive if ALL of the following criteria are true:
The account has 2 or fewer entries posted to it.
The account has not been logged into (or posted to for communities) in the last 2 years.
The account is not a Paid or Permanent account.
The account is not in a Memorial or Locked status.
An email will be sent to the current email address for any account which will be affected by this. The owner of any such account can prevent their account from being deleted by logging into or posting to that account. After two weeks, if no action has been taken, the account will be marked as deleted and the account owner will be notified again. Once deleted, the owner will still have 30 days to login to the account to undelete their account. After 30 days, the account is purged and the username will become available for anyone to use through http://www.livejournal.com/shop/renameaccount.bml.
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