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Disallow Journal Inheritance
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Prevent people from inheriting ownership of a journal when they receive a recycled email address previously used to open a journal.
Full description of the ideaIn working in Support I've noticed that a lot of people make "unsubscribe me" requests, not knowing their email
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I was going to say that, too. People who open those "UNSUBSCRIBE ME!!!" requests generally tend to have above-average difficulties with figuring out how to delete the account associated with their address even when given instructions by Support, so I tend to suspect they created an account without knowing what they did. The "the account might have been opened by someone who had this email address before you" is part of the usual answer for these users, but I always thought it was more to mollify users that LJ isn't spamming them.
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I was going to say there is the remove email tool, but that requires the email to not be the validated one (for 6 months) and also to be in the account, which would require pw change.
I could potentially see an employee only admin tool to remove an email from an account without unvalidating, to be used in weird cases, but not something user accessible.
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If you yourself care about what happens to your account if your email account gets recycled, then switch to an email service that doesn't recycle inactive accounts.
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Maybe I didn't express myself correctly. This is a person who owns the verified email address for the account. If they are claiming they don't have a journal, they either inherited the email address, or they forgot they ever created a journal to begin with. Or maybe a family member using the same email created the account. Either way, the control is still tied to the email holder. They are just releasing control over the account instead of deleting it outright.
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