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Not surprised. Should be SOP anyways. Also, p sure Xbox relinquished (inactive) gamertags not too long ago. - https://www.geekwire.com/2016/xbox-gamertags/ htt

Not surprised. Should be SOP anyways. Also, p sure Xbox relinquished (inactive) gamertags not too long ago. - https://www.geekwire.com/2016/xbox-gamertags/ https://www.geekwire.com/2016/xbox-gamertags/

teaearlgraycold 3y ago
Pretty much all sites and services should have this functionality.
- romwell 3y ago
  Why not banks too? Haven't used your money in a while? Poof! Someone else would make better use of them. Real estate too. Taxes ain't enough - confiscate vacant property, and sell it at a flat rate at an ~open~ secret auction. And cars too, of course. Didn't drive it on public roadways in a year? Clearly you don't need it. ---- The first analogy is the closest one. People keep money in the bank for convenience, and that's what allows banks to operate. Social networks use users' posts in the same way. It's their currency. Without it, they are nothing. This is very different from gaming accounts, where a user profile is little more than the username. People cherish their post and comment history. It's their deposits into the social network. Of course, I sincerely welcome this move by X. I wouldn't be able to come up with such a great way to shoot oneself in the foot.
  - teaearlgraycold 3y ago
    The only problem I see is that the inactivity timeout is 30 days. Make it a year and I can see no valid complaints.
  - charcircuit 3y ago
    >People cherish their post and comment history. It's their deposits into the social network. The old account just gets renamed. All of the contents still exists. Even old links to posts would continue to work since the username in a URL does not actually matter.
  - makeitdouble 3y ago
    To note, your bank money getting parked somewhere else because of X years of inactivity actually happens depending on where you live. It's not straight given to someone else, but it probably disappears in maintenance fees after a long enough time ? Same for real estate: specific conditions need to be met, but solely having the land at your name isn't enough to guarantee you keep owning the property. On cars, I assume you keep paying for the license plate even if you don't drive, or it's revoked and reattributed ? Basically, reality has a bias against permanent passive ownership.
  - sverhagen 3y ago
    I agree with your point, just want to throw in with a wink that there's squatting and other laws to go against leaving real estate stay empty, in some countries and jurisdictions.
romwell 3y ago
There's a difference between relinquishing and selling.
romwell 3y ago
>p sure Xbox relinquished (inactive) gamertags And with this move, the level of discourse on X is one step closer to that on Xbox .

teaearlgraycold 3y ago

Pretty much all sites and services should have this functionality.

romwell 3y ago
Why not banks too? Haven't used your money in a while? Poof! Someone else would make better use of them. Real estate too. Taxes ain't enough - confiscate vacant property, and sell it at a flat rate at an ~open~ secret auction. And cars too, of course. Didn't drive it on public roadways in a year? Clearly you don't need it. ---- The first analogy is the closest one. People keep money in the bank for convenience, and that's what allows banks to operate. Social networks use users' posts in the same way. It's their currency. Without it, they are nothing. This is very different from gaming accounts, where a user profile is little more than the username. People cherish their post and comment history. It's their deposits into the social network. Of course, I sincerely welcome this move by X. I wouldn't be able to come up with such a great way to shoot oneself in the foot.
- teaearlgraycold 3y ago
  The only problem I see is that the inactivity timeout is 30 days. Make it a year and I can see no valid complaints.
- charcircuit 3y ago
  >People cherish their post and comment history. It's their deposits into the social network. The old account just gets renamed. All of the contents still exists. Even old links to posts would continue to work since the username in a URL does not actually matter.
- makeitdouble 3y ago
  To note, your bank money getting parked somewhere else because of X years of inactivity actually happens depending on where you live. It's not straight given to someone else, but it probably disappears in maintenance fees after a long enough time ? Same for real estate: specific conditions need to be met, but solely having the land at your name isn't enough to guarantee you keep owning the property. On cars, I assume you keep paying for the license plate even if you don't drive, or it's revoked and reattributed ? Basically, reality has a bias against permanent passive ownership.
- sverhagen 3y ago
  I agree with your point, just want to throw in with a wink that there's squatting and other laws to go against leaving real estate stay empty, in some countries and jurisdictions.

romwell 3y ago

There's a difference between relinquishing and selling.

romwell 3y ago

>p sure Xbox relinquished (inactive) gamertags And with this move, the level of discourse on X is one step closer to that on Xbox .