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According to flist, lj will start deleting inactive journals, or journals that you have not posted in for at least 24 months. This means that about
20% of my flist is about to disappear. I have a lot of inactive journals friended. Anyone know why they are doing it? To conserve space? Or just figure out where the true ad dollars are going? (Hee, considering the fact that most of us have found a way to hide the ads, not very far.)

Debating walk. It's humid. Cooler. But humid.

Haven't really watched much tv this summer outside of FARSCAPE. Burn Notice got deleted off DVR - because it got too repetitive. Michael in danger, he gets saved. Someone wants to kill Michael, he talks them out of it or kills them. Fiona flirts with Michael and wants to know if they have a relationship.
They do. But he won't stop pursuing the whole burned notice thing. Rinse and repeat. No character evolution, no progression and the series has been on the air for about three-four years. Come on! Why haven't you been canceled for the sin of boring me silly? Maybe it's just me? But tv can be incredibly repeatitive. And my tolerance for that ain't high.

Did watch all of In Plain Sight - which basically does right, what all these other shows do wrong. Character evolution. Procedural stories that evolve and provide insight into the main characters and their relationships.
Plus a tough heroine who pushes past most gender stereotypes. Miss it already.

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They revised the definition of "inactive" journal to mean one that only has a maximum of one post and hasn't been used to make any comments, and hasn't been used in two years. Sounds pretty safe to me.

And apparently the main reason is because unused LJs are cybersquatting on thousands of user names which current users would like to get themselves, and a lot of people have been pushing LJ Support to do something to make the names available again.

Edited 2010-07-15 16:56 (UTC)

Yes, to save space and clean up the back end stuff. Apparently they're only deleting inactive journals which have only one post, so if the journal in question has more, it's safe. But yeah, I expect the part of my flist made up of journals which were created solely to post in other journals to go poof. I've heard some conflicting things about whether or not all the comments made by such journals will go away too.

OK, it's only comments from suspended accounts that get deleted.

I'm surprised that livejournal wants to delete these accounts: they must sell advertising according to how many accounts they have, and deleted a bunch would just make that number smaller.... particularly if they are deleting ones which really aren't taking up much storage space (inactive with only one post? those can't use up much room at all! lol).

Oh well, lj is probably going the way of the Dodo - it is too bad - I still enjoy it.

I agree about 'In Plain Sight', it is a terrific show... but I'm still loving The Closer and Leverage (both of which have just returned for the summer), and Eureka has some strong characters.... Also Warehouse 13 has expanded one of their women characters a bit : Mrs. Frederic is an interesting older woman with a lot of mysterious power:
http://blastr.com/2009/09/6-things-you-must-know-ab.php

And Burn Notice has a new episode on tonight! Yay!