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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Re: about the username
Date: March 16th, 2003 01:19 am (UTC)