purging communities

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Title
purging communities

Short, concise description of the idea
purging communities belonging to maintainer's whose account is suspended/deleted/purged

Full description of the idealivejournal has a tendency of sometimes suspending user accounts for seemingly no reason whatsoever and sometimes with that the user's community remain spacebound; never

Comments

[boredinsomniac]

I disagree. The community's remaining members would probably prefer to have maintainership transferred to one of them, rather than see the entire community deleted.

[mmaster]

+1

[charliemc]

+1

[kayt_arminta]

+1

-1

[just_chiara]

Sometimes communities, even when inactive, are still used as an archive. It would be different if it were communities without any entries, of course, just like never-updated user accounts.

Re: -1

[charliemc]

Yes. Agreed!

[azurelunatic]

Hmm.

If there are other members of the community, who are using the community, it does not seem as if the community should be deleted.

Even if the maintainer is gone, if the community has old entries that are still in any way relevant (fiction, humor, advice), it does not seem as if the community should be deleted, particularly if the entries are public.

If the community's only member is a suspended maintainer, and the community has no public entries, I see little problem with deleting the whole community -- that maintainer is not likely to be coming back, and there is nothing left for the public to view. In the event that the previous maintainer does come back under a new account (assuming they have not got the permaban) within a reasonable time limit, provision should be made for the community to be handed over to the previous maintainer's new account.

[dawna]

I have no problem with the last scenario but only abuse can determine that and it can only be don on a case by case basis. It would have to be an internal policy decision.

[dawna]

LiveJournal doesn't suspend accounts for "no reason whatsoever" there always is a reason, and the reason always comes from the Abuse Prevention Team or Ops (typically a traffic/DoS issue) and you aren't doing something wrong to get your account suspended.

That said, just because someone gets their account suspended by Abuse, doesnt mean an entire community should be suspended right along with it.

The members can ask for a new maintainer to be appointed by abuse http://www.livejournal.com/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=221

+1

[tapho]

I just made a similar entry about this.