Remove Suspended and Deleted / Purged User Names From Lists

[thelittlevoice]

Title
Remove Permanently Suspended and Deleted / Purged User Names From Lists

Short, concise description of the idea
Remove permanently suspended and deleted / purged user names from community member and personal journal lists.

Full description of the ideaIf a journal is permanently suspended or deleted / purged, the usernames still remain on the

Comments

[azurelunatic]

This got brought up not quite three years ago: http://community.livejournal.com/suggestions/720579.html

The only objection of note (when looking at the comments that were not a misunderstanding of the suggestion) was mine, that some comms might want certain deleted-and-purged members for sentimental reasons. But one does have to let go sometime.

The only objection I have now would be that some suspensions are not permanent, but there is no way (as far as I know) to tell a permanent suspension or a suspension that is likely to be permanent from a suspension that can be cleared up by the user once they have the chance to speak with Abuse.

[lothy]

An alternate option for the sake of such sentimental community owners might be to rather than automatically removing deleted members from the lists, have a fast and easy way to do so without having to load the entire friends page?

[lady_angelina]

I just submitted a suggestion a while ago about having a link to add.bml on the page that says that a journal was "deleted," "deleted and purged," or "suspended." It hasn't been approved or rejected yet, so it won't show up yet.

[lothy]

Yes - I'm one of those people whose pages take forever to load if I want to remove friends. So +1.

[azurelunatic]

Do you depend on this as a community maintainer, to look at where various past users have gone, or do you use this for your personal journal?

[nakeisha]

This would be good - especially as a comm Mod. I try to keep up with removing people if they have a strike-through as I like it to look 'tidy', but there's only so much time in each day. Thus to have it done automatically would be great.

[charliemc]

Yes, as a moderator I agree. Keeping up with this is really difficult...

[scien]

Hm. For my personal journal, I'd rather delete people myself than have them automatically deleted for me. Maybe it could be a setting? Or a button somewhere to remove all deleted journals from your friends list?

For communities I think it makes perfect sense and particularly if it makes those pages load faster I'll be all for it.

For what it's worth, I have a friend who committed suicide still on my list. It's kind of nice to still have her there and remember when I look at my profile. I'd be a bit sad to see her removed. Although of course that isn't the end of the world.

[lady_angelina]

I think this suggestion only pertains to journals that have the "strikethrough" in their usernames. If your friend's journal doesn't have that (and btw, I'm sorry for your loss), then it wouldn't be affected. It can be flagged as a "memorial" account (one of her relatives would have to email webmaster@livejournal.com to have this done), which would never be deleted or purged.

I do agree on the wanting to have control over which journals stay, so I submitted a suggestion a while ago about an alternative to provide a link to add.bml on the page that says that the journal is "deleted," "deleted and purged," or "suspended." It hasn't been approved or rejected yet, though.

[scien]

It does indeed have a strikethrough. Her relatives got access to her journal after her death and requested that it be taken offline. It didn't occur to me before that that's probably not what usually happens - I hadn't heard about 'memorial' accounts.

Your additional suggestion makes perfect sense to me.

[lady_angelina]

Ahhhh. =( In that case, I can definitely understand your concern with this suggestion.

(Also, I gave outdated info. Reports of deceased users need to go to support@livejournal.com, not webmaster, though they used to go to the latter. I forgot they'd changed that.)

Thanks!