So unfair!
Mar. 10th, 2003 04:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bronwynrhSo I couldn't have ~bronwyn in my lj address because somebody already had the name. Well this somebody (born 02-26-85 according to her lj profile) hasn't posted since June 25th, 2001!
Sounds like she'd been have a really rough time of it, as 18 year olds are wont to do, and I hope she's doing better now.
But honey! Give up the page! Let me have my name! Please!
Ok, so there are other Bronwyn's out there too, champing at the bit, wishing they could have the name. I don't presume that I should be first in line. Although it would be nice . . . :-)
*sigh*
Edit: So Bronwyn #2's email addy is kaput. Next stop: LJ admins.
Edit #2 LJ admins don't read service requests. Okie dokie. There's no policy regarding dead-in-the-water journal for 1 or 2 or even 3 years journals. I'll never get any real help on this because the only people who will read the comment/question I sent are LJers like you and me.
Huh.
Ok, little picture, understandable.
Big picture. . . pathetic! So they can say "We have a million users!" No, no they don't. They have a million LJ accounts, some rather large proportion of which are quite dead. The LJ admins have no policy or mechanism in place to weed through the corpses. Poor planning guys. I'd think all those corpses would be taking up some valuable space. Am I wrong in thinking that?
Oh, well.
LAST EDIT: According to LJ. . . "No. LiveJournal does not delete accounts for inactivity.
Even though it may appear that a user is no longer updating their journal, this can be misleading; the user might be making Friends-Only posts, or simply use the account for reading friends' posts and commenting on them. Some users also find themselves without Internet access for prolonged periods of time, but will continue with their journal at a later date.
Additionally, usernames are not currently recyclable. Even if the journal were deleted, you wouldn't be able to claim the username. If your desired username is already taken, try a variant (such as adding numbers, extra letters, or underscores), or select another username entirely."
Hmmmm. Eeeenteresstink.
Ok then.
Monday update: The Big Experiment is underway. In an hour and a half I will head downstairs to begin gathering the first set of data. 1.5GB worth or so, I'm guessing. *crossing fingers*
Sounds like she'd been have a really rough time of it, as 18 year olds are wont to do, and I hope she's doing better now.
But honey! Give up the page! Let me have my name! Please!
Ok, so there are other Bronwyn's out there too, champing at the bit, wishing they could have the name. I don't presume that I should be first in line. Although it would be nice . . . :-)
*sigh*
Edit: So Bronwyn #2's email addy is kaput. Next stop: LJ admins.
Edit #2 LJ admins don't read service requests. Okie dokie. There's no policy regarding dead-in-the-water journal for 1 or 2 or even 3 years journals. I'll never get any real help on this because the only people who will read the comment/question I sent are LJers like you and me.
Huh.
Ok, little picture, understandable.
Big picture. . . pathetic! So they can say "We have a million users!" No, no they don't. They have a million LJ accounts, some rather large proportion of which are quite dead. The LJ admins have no policy or mechanism in place to weed through the corpses. Poor planning guys. I'd think all those corpses would be taking up some valuable space. Am I wrong in thinking that?
Oh, well.
LAST EDIT: According to LJ. . . "No. LiveJournal does not delete accounts for inactivity.
Even though it may appear that a user is no longer updating their journal, this can be misleading; the user might be making Friends-Only posts, or simply use the account for reading friends' posts and commenting on them. Some users also find themselves without Internet access for prolonged periods of time, but will continue with their journal at a later date.
Additionally, usernames are not currently recyclable. Even if the journal were deleted, you wouldn't be able to claim the username. If your desired username is already taken, try a variant (such as adding numbers, extra letters, or underscores), or select another username entirely."
Hmmmm. Eeeenteresstink.
Ok then.
Monday update: The Big Experiment is underway. In an hour and a half I will head downstairs to begin gathering the first set of data. 1.5GB worth or so, I'm guessing. *crossing fingers*
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(no subject)
Date: March 8th, 2003 02:20 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: March 8th, 2003 02:49 pm (UTC)LOL!
Oh well.
Even my other usual nicks were taken. I guess I'm just not as creative when it comes to naming me as my parents were.
Re:
Date: March 9th, 2003 07:28 am (UTC)Good luck in your quest. Does this person have an email address that you could contact her at??
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Date: March 8th, 2003 04:17 pm (UTC)Re: ??
Date: March 9th, 2003 07:43 am (UTC)Hmmm. I dunno. It can't hurt to try, can it? :-)
Re: ??
Date: March 9th, 2003 09:50 am (UTC)Re: ??
Date: March 9th, 2003 09:54 am (UTC)I've contacted LJ. We'll see what happens.
Did you know that LJ charges $15 for username changes?? Wow!
And they don't delete journals, so who knows what they'll do in the case of someone who has disappeared and whose contacts are no longer valid. *shrug*
*sit's back to wait*
(no subject)
Date: March 8th, 2003 05:56 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: March 9th, 2003 08:01 am (UTC)Lord, from the sounds of her last post and her mental state, I hope she's ok.
Anyway, it seems Mel's suggestion of going to LJ is the next step.
Let's try it!
about the username
Date: March 10th, 2003 05:43 am (UTC)And I do agree with you, names no longer in use should be purged and available for re-use.
Re: about the username
Date: March 10th, 2003 06:14 am (UTC)Thanks, Naidy for responding. It was very kind of you :-)
Re: about the username
Date: March 10th, 2003 05:30 pm (UTC)Re: about the username
Date: March 16th, 2003 01:19 am (UTC)