Don't announce upcoming birthdays for memorial journals

[afuna]

Title:
Don't announce upcoming birthdays for memorial journals

Area:
notifications, birthdays,

Summary:
We should not send out birthday notifications for users who have passed away. We should not also show these in the list of upcoming birthdays in the logged-in homepage, or on the full birthdays list (http://www.dreamwidth.org/birthdays).

Description:
A memorial journal is a special status applied by site administrators to a journal, if informed that the owner has passed away. It preserves the journal in its current state (no new entries or comments), leaving it up for friends who might wish to revisit it at any time.

As far as I can tell (I've checked the code and I haven't seen anything that says we guard against this case) we send out birthday notifications even for memorial journals. This may come as an unpleasant and unavoidable annual surprise for friends of that person.

We should not announce the upcoming birthday, so we need to hide it in these places:
* email/inbox notifications
* birthdays list on the logged-in homepage
* full birthdays list (http://www.dreamwidth.org/birthdays)
* ...(any that I've missed?)

The birthday would still be displayed on the profile page, respecting any current privacy settings, so that the information would still be available for those who seek it out.

Poll #2502 Don't announce upcoming birthdays for memorial journals

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 93

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Should be implemented as-is.
43 (46.2%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
37 (39.8%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
5 (5.4%)

(I have no opinion)
8 (8.6%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)