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elf ([personal profile] elf) wrote in [site community profile] dw_biz 2012-04-12 11:33 am (UTC)

You could define a level of "accounts that haven't been used at all" that get flagged for "use it or lose it" notifications--which only gets applied in cases where a single person has many many unused accounts. (I want to throw out a number for that, but I'm trying not to think in concrete terms.)

I don't know how hard it would be to establish something like AO3's "Fannish Next of Kin" option, where people can indicate a contact person for decisions where the account holder is unavailable. I'd expect legit RPG uses to not have a problem with "talk to this person if you can't find me," although I'm not involved with journal RPGing and I could be wrong about that. Also, it's possible there are other legitimate many-many-accounts purposes that don't have an obvious second person involved.

But if those problems could be addressed, it's possible that a FNoK could be required (or requested?) to namesquat on a high number of names. It might help in abuse cases too, where there's an accusation of wrongdoing and the account owner is unavailable when the accusation is being made.

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