Moderator Post

[stormy]

UPDATED! You must be releasing at least 100 accounts at this time to contact Dreamwidth Staff. Thank you! - August 09, 2012.

First and foremost, I'd like to thank everyone who has contributed to the community. Since there is no deleted and purged username list on Dreamwidth at current, I'm glad to see users picking up some unwanted names.

Secondly, if you are a user who has a large number of accounts ( at least 100 accounts, please for denise's sanity) that you are not using and want to relinquish those accounts in one go without having to manually delete them all and without facing any possible consequences for name sitting, denise has given you an alternative to do so without possible repercussions for name sitting!

Simply follow the steps below:

1. Head to Support, open a request in the Account Payments category.
   
2. Use the email address the accounts are registered to.
   
3. Leave a list of account names that can be freed up.
   
4. Send! You're saving yourself and others rename hassle and Dreamwidth Points. You're awesome.
   
5. If you'd like to still leave the list here for others to find, feel free. I've created a new tag, marked unregistered for you to put these names under.
   
   It's a manual process right now, but this will allow these accounts to bypass the deletion. purged username, and rename token periods. Please feel free to link this entry and pass this on to your circle.

Comments

[lesbians]

i'm not sure if you have or know of plurk, but i've linked your post on there and it is getting shared with bunches of dreamwidth users. thank you so much for the news!

[denise]

Just commenting back here to say -- the number of people with only a few unwanted accounts writing in (and referencing this entry) has gotten pretty large, and a combination of the process being super manual (I'm not kidding, it takes me at least half an hour to do each request, more depending on how many are in the batch) and us having extremely limited resources (especially since I've recently had hand surgery that sharply limits the amount of time I can spend typing) means that we just can't continue doing this for everyone who asks.

From here on out, I'll be reserving the rename offer only for people who have an extremely large number of accounts registered and feel as though they may qualify under the anti-username-squatting policies we're still developing when they're put into effect. (I'm not going to define numbers, since that always results in people trying to game the system, but in general, we're talking at least three digits in terms of registered accounts.) We can't, unfortunately, keep offering the service to people who only have a handful of usernames they don't want anymore -- those people should delete the accounts and wait for them to be purged instead.