An Open Letter To The Staff Of D2Jsp.Org

To whom it may concern,
I wish to point out a small potential improvement that could easily be made to the functionality of this website. This change could in theory bring a great deal of advancement to the way the community interacts with the forum pages. Implementation of this change could easily be handled by the webmaster in a matter of just hours.
Simply stated, there needs to be a method by which active users of this site can acquire the account names of others who have been inactive for more than five years. Not to be confused with acquiring their account, but rather just the name that is more than likely not ever going to be used again. The concept I have devised is actually quite easy, and could even potentially be lucrative for the site itself.
Whether it be to charge a monetary donation to the site for access to a name, or to simply charge double the cost of a normal name change to cover the other account having its name changed, there is still profit to be made from the added function. This process could even go so far as to be handled by a designated staff member, and go through much the same approval process as any of the donor forums real life trades. Assuming that it is approved, a simple message is sent to the account whose name is being taken on both the website itself as well as to their registered email address.
The email would be to inform the potentially returning user that their inactivity has cost them the account name they once had, and their new account name is 'xzycbgvdbn' with the original password remaining the same. The user should also be added to a "Dead List" that would contain all the important information about when the name change took place. Should the old user of that name actually return, it would be up to them to either enjoy themselves on their new name or acquire a different one at their own discretion. To that end, it is simply the price they pay for having left the community for so damn long in the first place.
In closing, I would really like for some of you reading this open letter who haven't had the chance to contemplate it yet...just stop a moment and think about FIVE years. Any account that has been inactive for that long or longer will more than likely stay that way until the end, so what is to stop the staff from simply leaving the account untouched and changing it's name over to something less useful? The name that I wish to acquire through this new method is far beyond even the parameters I have set forth in this letter. I'll not say the name here, but I will go so far as to say that it was created in 2003 and has not ever had a single post, the forum gold has always been at 0.00, not one thing about the profile changed, and the user has not been seen in 3075 days! Why on earth are the staff protecting this antiquated relic?
Please vote in the poll topic whether or not you feel this would be an amazing opportunity for those of us who still actively use this site on a daily basis, and if you have anything to add please leave your opinions here in this thread. Thanks!


e/ Also, it seems awefully convenient that the last time I posted this it was closed due to excessive off topic spam, yet everyone that posted in the thread was talking 100% about nothing but THIS topic. Is it really necessary to use such underhanded tactics to try to silence this? Either way, we will continue unhindered in bringing this problem to light and everyone that voted previously. Please do it again! I have 480fg and I will bold/red this as many times as it takes for us to be heard. Everyone be sure to state only your opinion on the subject matter at hand (same as the last damn thread). Thank you!

I voted yes, but I am sure they will silence us again.

By the way, instead of spamming and getting 10%'s, why don't you donate your fg to someone who will make more fg with it and allow you to do 2x more bold/red topics?

/Edit: There's that hermaphrodite.. Kath I think? He does a lot of FG with 5fg, he already tripled my fg amount..

This post was edited by Hylia on Mar 25 2012 06:03pm

I think this I'd a very good idea,
Because I have seen questions like this in the general help area,
People wanting someone else's account name, but they can't because
The account has been inactive for so long so it's not like they could message them
Like you would with someone who has been active!

I think this would benefit the community(:

Holy free speech!!!

Derp

Your last thread got closed after it had almost the same number of votes for each side (10 to 9 in favour). Just pointing this out, but people might not think that it should be implanted...

Voted yes btw

Your last thread was closed because it's not going to happen. There is no "it's not going to happen" reason they can pick for closing your thread, so they picked the first one (which is spam)
In the future, if your thread was closed in site suggestions, that means it's not going to happen, if you want to discuss this issue further, you can pm any member of the mod team about it.

good idea.

The lack of any reply whatsoever from doing that is what has brought me here. Also, it isn't surprising that all the staff will come in here and vote no on the poll without giving a reply to explain why they will not do this. I can assure every no vote so far has come from a staff member and if they let it go a while the number of people on the site that want this would far out weight their votes. I'm still waiting to hear even ONE good reason why this isn't already implemented. The fact is there isn't one other than the obvious one of they don't feel like it. Well that just doesn't cut it in my book, so leave it open and see what everyone actually has to say about it. Thank you to everyone for your opinions so far, keep them coming!

ALSO, if you vote no please feel free to give a good explanation why this wouldn't help our community, not just vote no because you are stuck in the rut of thinking it won't...I didn't ask if you think would happen, I asked you if you think it would help our community! Thanks!

oh wow pretty close results.. sounds cool tho i voted yes

First of all, there might be some staff members who has voted yes. And some no. You cant know ot.

But i will give no. And it will not happend. It has been denied before.
And as arsenic said, if your topic was closed, do not post it again, as this might result on actions against your account