I Support but, what if someone just makes private projects and nothing more, could there account be deleted
(King of the page lol)

yadayadayadagoodbye wrote:

Paddle2See wrote:

Za-Chary wrote:

Gamer_Logan819 wrote:

unused do not equal inactive

Sure, but “unused” is a subset of “inactive.” As a result, “deleting unused accounts” is rejected since “deleting inactive accounts” is rejected.

No - I don't think that's how that works. If an account is totally unused (has created nothing on Scratch other than the account) - that's different from an account that has become inactive after being active for some period of time. I personally would not have an issue with removing accounts that had never been active.

Interesting, but how would you know if an account was never “active”? An account has to have been logged in originally (unless its a class account), and so would it be considered active if, say, the owner, after creating it, sent a single comment, or stayed logged in for a week?

i think the account needs to atleast be active (be on scratch / playtime) for 12 hours, comment/like/favourite on a project and the deadline is a week. (verifying your email lets you comment)

Funquat wrote:

I Support but, what if someone just makes private projects and nothing more, could there account be deleted
(King of the page lol)

That still counts as “activity”, since the ST has access to unshared projects.

this is a bump

Support, there is no reason to have those.

KingDrover wrote:

Funquat wrote:

I Support but, what if someone just makes private projects and nothing more, could there account be deleted
(King of the page lol)

That still counts as “activity”, since the ST has access to unshared projects.

Oh ok thank you!

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scampton_the_great wrote:

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Okay, I know this is an old forum, but it's basically turned into an argument and people just trying to push it up, so I want to share my response here.

I think they should be deleting unused accounts under this criteria:

- they have done either nothing, or close to nothing (basically just like hearting 2 things)
- they have either not created any projects, or they have created only EMPTY projects. (projects with literally nothing in them besides the default stuff)
- their account is at least 10 months old

What do you think about this??

ChickenMan82 wrote:

Okay, I know this is an old forum, but it's basically turned into an argument and people just trying to push it up, so I want to share my response here.

I think they should be deleting unused accounts under this criteria:

- they have done either nothing, or close to nothing (basically just like hearting 2 things)
- they have either not created any projects, or they have created only EMPTY projects. (projects with literally nothing in them besides the default stuff)
- their account is at least 10 months old

What do you think about this??

I honestly agree with this, since namesnipe accounts could just create an empty project and boom, it won't be deleted

ChickenMan82 wrote:

Okay, I know this is an old forum, but it's basically turned into an argument and people just trying to push it up, so I want to share my response here.

I think they should be deleting unused accounts under this criteria:

- they have done either nothing, or close to nothing (basically just like hearting 2 things)
- they have either not created any projects, or they have created only EMPTY projects. (projects with literally nothing in them besides the default stuff)
- their account is at least 10 months old

What do you think about this??

1. loving 2 projects is a really small requirement so namesnipes could easily be created that pass the requirements not to be deleted. then only legitimate accounts would be deleted.
2. what if a legitimate user loves only 1 projects

additional point: what if there are teachers who create student accounts for a time in the future and then come back to find them deleted

FWGcats wrote:

ChickenMan82 wrote:

Okay, I know this is an old forum, but it's basically turned into an argument and people just trying to push it up, so I want to share my response here.

I think they should be deleting unused accounts under this criteria:

- they have done either nothing, or close to nothing (basically just like hearting 2 things)
- they have either not created any projects, or they have created only EMPTY projects. (projects with literally nothing in them besides the default stuff)
- their account is at least 10 months old

What do you think about this??

1. loving 2 projects is a really small requirement so namesnipes could easily be created that pass the requirements not to be deleted. then only legitimate accounts would be deleted.
2. what if a legitimate user loves only 1 projects

additional point: what if there are teachers who create student accounts for a time in the future and then come back to find them deleted

so true, i agree

I honestly see nothing wrong with this except for one thing - what if, for example, someone goes to a school and at the start of the school year the teacher tells everyone to “make accounts but not to touch them until the end of the year, when we will learn how to use Scratch”? Or, what if you found out about Scratch and made an account to remind yourself later, but you dont come back for a long period of time? Maybe they could send to your email 10 days before your account gets deleted, 5 days, and 1 day?

it's much worse if my old account @StickmanBacc999 got deleted because of inactivity

BaccWas_Here wrote:

it's much worse if my old account @StickmanBacc999 got deleted because of inactivity

It would only get deleted if you did absolutley nothing ever.

mtaka4 wrote:

BaccWas_Here wrote:

it's much worse if my old account @StickmanBacc999 got deleted because of inactivity

It would only get deleted if you did absolutley nothing ever.

the problem with deleting accounts that do nothing ever is that it won't delete namesnipes because namesnipers are smart. they'll use each account for 1 comment, 1 love (or 2 as in above), making 1 project, etc.

the problem with deleting accounts that don't do enough is that it'll get too many legitimate accounts deleted, and not enough namesnipes. what if someone has their account deleted because the requirement is loving a project, and they didnt know how to do that? meanwhile, namesnipers love projects on all their namesnipes to prevent them from being deleted?

additional point: accounts are never truly deleted. they still exist, because the scratch team can restore them. take, for example, @you - going to you's followers page, you can see that the account still has followers, a profile picture, etc. all this data is kept, as well as other data. (but perhaps not all of it, maybe not personal data. im not a ST member so I don't know the specifics.) so, all of this means that deleting accounts that are unused wouldn't even save storage space.

wei04787 wrote:

I honestly see nothing wrong with this except for one thing - what if, for example, someone goes to a school and at the start of the school year the teacher tells everyone to “make accounts but not to touch them until the end of the year, when we will learn how to use Scratch”? Or, what if you found out about Scratch and made an account to remind yourself later, but you dont come back for a long period of time? Maybe they could send to your email 10 days before your account gets deleted, 5 days, and 1 day?

i agree with the email part.

FWGcats wrote:

ChickenMan82 wrote:

Okay, I know this is an old forum, but it's basically turned into an argument and people just trying to push it up, so I want to share my response here.

I think they should be deleting unused accounts under this criteria:

- they have done either nothing, or close to nothing (basically just like hearting 2 things)
- they have either not created any projects, or they have created only EMPTY projects. (projects with literally nothing in them besides the default stuff)
- their account is at least 10 months old

What do you think about this??

1. loving 2 projects is a really small requirement so namesnipes could easily be created that pass the requirements not to be deleted. then only legitimate accounts would be deleted.
2. what if a legitimate user loves only 1 projects

additional point: what if there are teachers who create student accounts for a time in the future and then come back to find them deleted

I meant like just hearting 2 things as an example, I would say like hearting less than or only 20 projects. I know it would still be easy but it would be slightly more difficult than only 2 things