First question: Doesn't the release of Paragon Chat kinda warrant a temporary cease and desist (yeah, i went there ) on deleting accounts?
The deletion will happen January 1. That's five and a half months away. Hopefully by then, everyone will have heard about Paragon Chat.
but others have Faces accounts and will probably want to update them and join in the fun here again now that they have a reason.
If they actually used their Faces account such that it has some sort of info on it and isn't just a blank default profile, they won't get deleted.
Again, we're only deleting accounts that are completely and totally unused.
Second question: if an account gets deleted can the person make a new account re-using the deleted login/profile name?
Yep, unless someone else nabs their username before they register again. And provided they are able to register under the same name, they'll effectively have recovered their previous account because we're only deleting accounts that are completely and totally unused. (In other words, there's nothing to recover. The only thing they're potentially losing in their username, because they don't have anything else on their account.)
Thanks for the questions.