Use a mediator / trusted, apply for existing name, site representative will email the inactive users account warning them account will be terminated...
voted yes

Hey that's a great opinion

Account being deleted won't be a thing..... If anything this would be a better solution.

again all this is just a suggestion.

I think there could be solutions to this problem I encountered in ethical and meaningful ways.

People have already posted concerns and scenarios where I think this idea would not be viable.

This post was edited by Orlando on Sep 20 2018 05:06pm

accounts wit x posts or less sure

Annoying as it may be, I side with the current rule. Your case by case suggestion is something that just doesn't work on an internet forum. People end up feeling entitled, then start complaining that the rules are too strict or too vague, and in the end it creates more drama than it's worth.

It's just a username; you don't need to have exactly the one you want, and you cannot expect your common English first name to still be available on a huge forum years after the forum was created.

This is an educated and precise comment that I think is good for discussion and I value the side point.

I do wholeheartedly agree with you however I think long term this should be addressed and given the chance to have someone request something and reviewed shouldn't be a problem. I wish I could PM Kevin or Njag with this account then say simply, Hi I would like to have this name and see what they could do for me?


It's weird for me because as a sys admin we have these rules set up to delete excess user accounts from our company simply because of database space. We allocate a certain amount of server space for each user as a network drive so they can securely store data on our domain for ease of access on different machines and in the event of break fix hard drive failures. So each user we purge we reallocate a ton of storage space on our SANS.

This post was edited by Orlando on Sep 20 2018 05:42pm

The name i wanted!!

atleast mine has a post

This post was edited by DexstaA on Sep 20 2018 06:18pm

like diablo 2

Yes like diablo