Hi people, this is SupaDiva4 signing on to do her first article in the
Whyville Times. (Just telling you that this is my first time, so... it
might not be the best article in the world but I'll try to do my best)
People have been complaining about space in Whyville, and like
most of you I agreed to some of the polls and articles people put up and
wrote. Then I read an article in the Times about a person who accidentally
clicked on the privacy statement (that no one probably reads) and she
said that it states: 'If an account that has been inactive for 1 year or
longer, all of this user information associated with the account is
purged from our database.' So I thought, so why are we complaining? I
mean, if an account is in active for a year, it's gone, so we have extra
space, right?
WRONG!!!
Okay, I should tell a little mini story here... I was at City
Records, just looking up some of my friends (like a lot of people do) and I
decided to type in weird names and see if there are actually people named
those names. So I did and I discovered that that privacy statement is
NOT true!!!! Here are just a few people that I looked up that have been
inactive forever!
- qtpa2t -- 535 days ago!!
- rosemary -- 609 days ago!!
- Howdy -- 626 days ago!!
- dogs -- last on in the year 2000!!
- dude -- 823 days ago!!!
I think we should at least complain more about this than just
complaining about something in general. We should tell them what we want
done and tell it exactly! I'm saying that Whyville should do what
they promise and not just say they are doing it, but we should see it be
done with our own eyes!
I guess Whyville isn't doing what they are promising. And they know
that we have been on them about deleting people to make more space. So
why haven't they been doing what they said in the privacy statement?
Well, I don't know, but I sure would like some answers and I bet you would
too.
So, you all thought you should've stopped complaining earlier, huh? I guess you should rethink that. Shouldn't you?
This is Supadiva4 signing off....
Note from City Hall: Purging people from our database has nothing to do with how full Whyville is when you try to log on.
It's not how many total people who have registered on Whyville that's the
problem. It's the number of people who are actually come on at the same
time.
All the people chatting, looking in the satchels, checking their ledgers
and such overloads our computer. If we didn't limit the number, our server
would crash, and the database might get corrupted and Whyvillians would
loose their precious possessions.
The only way to solve this problem is for us to make some money, real
dollars not clams. That's why we offer Why-Passes.
We are asking Whyvillians to help their town by buying or bidding for Why-Passes.
This will help us buy servers, pay our workers, and do all the things that
we want to do for Whyville but just don't have the money for. I hope we
can count on your support.
City Hall
