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

[azurelunatic]

That's sort of a mix between how it is now and how it's planned.

On LiveJournal, the flow goes:
Person buys rename token for their journal
Person applies rename token and desired destination username
(If destination username is a purged personal journal) automatic job is kicked off to change comments and community entries to the format of "ex_$whoeve###"
Automatic job assigns new username to the renamed journal, and either redirects or deletes the old username, depending.

It will eventually be automatic on DW; renames aren't being currently sold in the shop because it's not automatic. Right now it's mostly being done in cases of obvious typo on account creation.