No rename token for purged communities

[tenkuu]

Title:
No rename token for purged communities

Area:
communities, rename tokens

Summary:
A purged username that someone wants to use as a community should not require a rename token.

Description:
Communities shouldn't need rename tokens because they're not a newly created username like someone would have for their own personal journal. Once purged, if a username can be used as a community, it should be as easy to claim it as for any newly created community. After all, purged should mean that it no longer has any association with its previous owner, and in this way it's like any regular unclaimed username.

Poll #2674 No rename token for purged communities

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 47

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Should be implemented as-is.
6 (12.8%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
1 (2.1%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
32 (68.1%)

(I have no opinion)
8 (17.0%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)

Comments

[tenkuu]

Then isn't there some way to change that? Or at least, to notify the remote sites in question that the username has changed ownership? It seems as though there should be some kind of option for that in the purging itself. A purging should be, as the name implies, a new start.

[pseudomonas]

This was discussed a while back in this community; the consensus was that there wasn't a way to do it, and that a)warning people before deleting their accounts to notify anyone who'd given them access, and b) warning people who bought a rename, was sufficient.