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

[ratcreature]

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.

But it is this the case? AFAIK comments, community posts, poll responses, presence on other people's profiles and such from purged accounts don't vanish (at least they don't on LJ), that is only broken if the name is reclaimed, and that causes the extra effort that you have to pay for. And that would still be true if this was to become a community.

[katieastrophe]

I may not be entirely or even slightly right (so any staff who know better than me, please feel free to correct) but my knowledge of how purging/selling new usernames is this:

* Person buys rename token for specific username which has been purged
* DW staff see rename token and manually change the purged username to something else non descript so that the usernames of comments change
* DW staff assign purged username to person who bought

This process is the same, irrespective of how the purged username was once used, or how it is henceforth going to be used.

i.e. it requires person-power to do some work and therefore, you have to pay for that.