By account-sitting, I mean purposely creating an account with a specific name just so others can't take the name, then never using it.

-Anonymous- said:
By account-sitting, I mean purposely creating an account with a specific name just so others can't take the name, then never using it.

First immediate question, judging context, is: are you assuming that it is a sitting account? The reason for this is you don't need to use assets of the site to have an account.

Second: can you provide links so a person who can do something about it won't have to look around for what you mean.

Siral_Exan said:
*stuff*

I wanted to take the username Nikolai, however, a user under that name had already been created back four years ago. They have no favorites, no posts, no comments- their profile is just completely empty. No bio, no artist info, no records- nothing. This leads me to believe that they are either a master lurker, or they created the account to troll anyone who might want to use that name in the future.

kill them

present scalp to Nimmy

Knotty_Curls said:
kill them

present scalp to Nimmy

Time to bust out the TCP-Tracer...

You can just message the mods.

If they deem the account inactive they will likely give over the name.

Bobcat said:
You can just message the mods.

If they deem the account inactive they will likely give over the name.

Oh, alright. I guess I hadn't thought of that...

At the cost of minor-necroposting, rather than creating a new thread for a similarly relevant question; if an account with a desired username is 1 year old but listed as Unactivated, that is I presume legitimately unused due to never using the activation email provided; would it be acceptable to request the username from one of the staff?

Also find out if the activation email was ever completed.

Pretty sure I got this username by simply asking a mod about it.

404_ArtNotFound said:
At the cost of minor-necroposting, rather than creating a new thread for a similarly relevant question; if an account with a desired username is 1 year old but listed as Unactivated, that is I presume legitimately unused due to never using the activation email provided; would it be acceptable to request the username from one of the staff?

13 days is necroposting now? The standards get worse every day

404_ArtNotFound said:
At the cost of minor-necroposting, rather than creating a new thread for a similarly relevant question; if an account with a desired username is 1 year old but listed as Unactivated, that is I presume legitimately unused due to never using the activation email provided; would it be acceptable to request the username from one of the staff?

As Peekaboo and I said, just message a mod.

They'll decide whether or not it's "dead".