"A journal is defined as inactive if it has not been logged into for 24 consecutive months and has only one post (i.e., the welcome post). A community is defined as inactive if has not been updated for 24 consecutive months and has only one entry and no comments."
This is better, sure, but it still has a lot of potential to damage fandom.
RP accounts for older/inactive RPs may have been inactive for over 24 months and may have no entries if the RP entirely involved community posting.
Especially in the early days of the great livejournal migration, but still now in some fandoms, many authors post fic directly to communities and not to their journals at all. Some who post only to communities or mirror their posts to communities have since deleted their journals, or removed all their posts for various reasons. I know when I'm updating my recs sets, I often run into old and abandoned journals where there is no content left anymore at all.
The biggest thing for me here is that livejournal isn't paying any attention to comments and community entries in their judgment of which journals to purge. Comments and community entries are an important aspect of livejournal culture, the idea that they won't be taken into account in determing what journals should be purged is just appalling.
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Date: 2010-07-15 05:05 pm (UTC)This is better, sure, but it still has a lot of potential to damage fandom.
RP accounts for older/inactive RPs may have been inactive for over 24 months and may have no entries if the RP entirely involved community posting.
Especially in the early days of the great livejournal migration, but still now in some fandoms, many authors post fic directly to communities and not to their journals at all. Some who post only to communities or mirror their posts to communities have since deleted their journals, or removed all their posts for various reasons. I know when I'm updating my recs sets, I often run into old and abandoned journals where there is no content left anymore at all.
The biggest thing for me here is that livejournal isn't paying any attention to comments and community entries in their judgment of which journals to purge. Comments and community entries are an important aspect of livejournal culture, the idea that they won't be taken into account in determing what journals should be purged is just appalling.