Absurd undelete policy
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According to https://en.support.wordpress.com/recycling-blog-names/ the reason why URLs of deleted blogs are never recycled is because someone may confuse the new blog with the old one, and get angry at previous owner.
But what about when YOU are the owner of the old blog? This reasoning doesn’t apply, so I see no reason why a user shouldn’t be allowed to recover a URL that was once his.
Is there some OTHER reason for not allowing users to recover their past URLs?
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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PS: I was required to select a blog in order to post this post, so I selected elancora.wordpress.com, but the blog I would like to recover is lfschenone.wordpress.com
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But what about when YOU are the owner of the old blog? This reasoning doesn’t apply, so I see no reason why a user shouldn’t be allowed to recover a URL that was once his.
Is there some OTHER reason for not allowing users to recover their past URLs?
You have received several warnings before deleting the blog. Even an email.
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You are not answering the question.
Yes, I did.
In all these warnings you received, was informed that you could not retrieve the URL. -
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I’m asking for the REASON why you cannot recover your OWN previous address. The reason man. Do you know it?
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You have your answer. You ignored multple warnings that deleting a blog URL is permanent and irreversible and no, registering the deleted URL is not possible.
Blog deletion is not easily accomplished. To prevent accidental or inadvertent deletion of blogs, there are multiple warnings given that blog deletion is permanent and irreversible.
Lastly, a verification link is sent in an email and must be clicked to delete a blog. If clicking that link does not work then copy and paste it into your upper browser window and click. If you click the URL is gone forever. http://en.support.wordpress.com/delete-site/
Deleted blog URLs are not recycled, regardless of who registered and deleted them and no exceptions are made.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/recycling-blog-names/You can register another .wordpress.com blog http://en.support.wordpress.com/register-a-blog/
Then if you wish to you can register a domain via a domain mapping upgrade because it does not matter what the underlying .wordpress.com address is when you are domain mapping.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/domain-mapping/
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The reason man.
Simple – their sandbox, their rules
Some places allow recycling of names etc. WordPress.COM has chosen not to
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Thanks to you too galois and timethief. I’m sure other users will find your answers useful. In my case however, all I wanted to hear was that there is no real reason, just an arbitrary policy.
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Yes it’s a policy and yes, when we agreed to the Terms of Service to register an account here we agreed to all policies made under it.
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You be welcome
Also from a technical point their once deleted gone forever is a bit easier to program
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lol, as a web developer, I can easily believe that’s the real reason.
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Nah, we had a horrible rash of impersonation centered around the kid’s game Club Penguin a few years. There were actual Chinese hackers getting into blogs by tricking kids into thinking they were super-user kids, then they’d hold the blogs for ransom and delete them, then trick staff into undeleting the blogs but making them the sole owners, etc, etc. It was horrible. That’s when the policy, which had been a sort of rough policy before, became a hard rule: to cut off the business model of those hackers. It worked, too.
Mind you, i’m not staff. I’ve just been here longer than most.
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Wow, I never expected that. If that’s the real reason, then it’s unfortunate, but understandable. Thanks raincoaster!
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Also, just by coincidence, today I found out that my MySQL server has been collapsing due to external requests from Chinese ip addresses. WTF Chinese hackers!
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