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| collectibles and should not be hoarded or squatted. | ||
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| Nickname and account registrations expire ten weeks after they are last used. | ||
| For grouped nicknames, "used" means that you were using the nickname while | ||
| logged in to the account which owns it. For accounts, "used" means that you | ||
| logged in to the account, regardless of the nickname you used to do so. | ||
| Nicknames which are the primary account name expire only when the entire | ||
| account is expired. If you know or plan to be absent for longer, please | ||
| contact network staff in advance for potential options. | ||
| Nicknames belonging to accounts that are older than two weeks but were last | ||
| used within two hours of registration are also considered to be expired. For | ||
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| grouped nicknames, "used" means that you were using the nickname while logged | ||
| in to the account which owns it. For accounts, "used" means that you logged | ||
| in to the account, regardless of the nickname you used to do so. Nicknames | ||
| which are the primary account name expire only when the entire account is | ||
| expired. If you know or plan to be absent for longer, please contact network | ||
| staff in advance for potential options. | ||
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| In some cases, such as for very old accounts, we may, at our discretion, | ||
| extend the expiry time of a nickname or account, usually not beyond 15 weeks | ||
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So what does that mean? |
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My interpretation is that this rule change only impacts accounts where the only usage was within 2 hours of registration. |
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No, if you used your nick more than two hours after you registered it, you're fine. This is (I'm guessing) about cleaning up all the Freenode nicknames people snatched up early in the network's lifetime and then sat on. |
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You need to log in once every 10 weeks. Unless your account is less than two weeks old, then you have to log in at least once 2 hours after registration, and then once every 10 weeks. I think. |
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No. Don't create an account and then never use it. That's what it means. You don't have to stay logged in all the time. |
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It's just a policy change to stop people from hoarding nicknames and then never actually using them. |
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Was this 10 week rule present on the former Freenode network? I remember that I got almost a year without logging on freenode and my account worked fine. |
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yes, but someone could have asked for it to be dropped during that time. It doesn't get dropped automatically, but it's considered expired and could be dropped if someone wanted it, since you hadn't logged in and reset the timer. |
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Are you enabling automatic nickname expiration? |
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@Mikaela no, as with the 10 week rule someone actually have to ask for the nickname for it to be dropped |
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@Mikaela No. |
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To clarify for everyone here I'm going to reiterate what I've been saying in #libera: If you have ever been logged into your account while it was more than two hours old, your account and nicks are not affected by this change, and never will be. |
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Simply put, if you've been using your nick for more than 2 hours since registering your nick then just ignore this message and get back to your work |
Did you intend "only used" here? As in, only within the two hours after the registration and not after that.