Occam wrote:We're talking about inactivation because of inactivity here, not inactivation as a sanction.
You are right, but this doesn't mean we will never get a player who feels a bit pissed because his account has been inactivated under the inactivity procedures. Believe me, this has happened in the past.
This may be particularly so where a player has been inactivated under the "party sitting" rule or the "3 day rule" where another player in the nation has specifically requested early inactivation.
Bear in mind also that Mods are only human...and whilst I'm not going to embarrass anyone by giving examples...I can tell you that (unsurprisingly, really) there have been those rare cases where after an inactivation request has been put in, the Mod has inactivated the account even though the account did not actually meet the rules criteria for inactivation. Hey, accidents can happen.
Given a situation can potentially emerge where someone is pissed about being inactivated under the inactivity rules, my argument is that when the pissed person goes to the thread to see what happened, it is better they just see the Mod saying "Done" than they see him saying something creative/flowery that might further inflame them.
Not that I don't generally enjoy Lewis's humour, BTW, he's lovely. Just don't want to see him get thumped for it, that's all, if you see what I mean!