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Purging Communities
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I would like communities that are no longer in use to be purged.
Full description of the ideaI have found communities that only have one post or have many posts, but are no longer use and haven't been in use for years. I'd like these communities to be purged so that the usernames can
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Communities with at least one entry, no. Old entries can still be useful to members (or, if public, to anyone). What about communities created for a specific challenge, or for birthday wishes, or for a now 'old' movie? They may not have any new entries ever again, but the entries that are there should not be deleted.
# When looking for a specific community that you want to belong to, you no longer stumble upon inactive community after inactive community.
That should be solved by improving the search page, not by purging communities.
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Yes.
Old communities that are no longer being updated can still contain valuable entries, so, if this suggestion is implemented, the parameters for deletion will need to be carefully thought out.
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And they then posted nothing further. It was posted in 2004. I see no reason that this community should be not be purged.
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I'd vote for case-by-case decisions for communities with only one introductory post, and even then I'd probably lean towards "only if someone wants the username".
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As far as content that should be kept, even if LJ deleted your writing - wouldn't you have a copy of important things on your own hard-drive??
Communities that have old posts and nothing recent like within a year or two could still be thriving - in other words, people are still logging on and reading the entries.
And BTW, names are important. Laziness has nothing to do with not wanting to choose another name. In fact, laziness would be not caring and settling for just any name. You say "it's happened to a lot of us..." - then YOU SHOULD WANT THE PURGE! That's the point.
And what's with the "suck it up buttercup"? Your writers block is definitely showing.
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But then wouldn't those still be shown as active to the LJ staff? They can track how many visits journals and communities are getting. So even if there is no posting going on, then LJ staffers should be able to see "oh okay, they're still getting tons of hits and this is being used a reference site" and the community would stay open.
It would take a lot of work on behalf of the LJ staff, but this is a suggestion community and people are going to suggest things that are going to take time and effort for the LJ staff to fix if they so choose to take up that task.
Thank you for your input. :)
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If people are reading the content, then the community is not inactive - LJ doesn't have to read the content, it just has to look at the traffic. Look at what your own post says - you arent updating, but other people still are and still logging on to read. And again, you could respond to LJ deletion notifications to keep the community open. Right? And you would only receive that notification IF you had no posts and readers for 1-2 years.
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