Occult, while I see why you would be upset, this suggestion requires exactly 1 thing: Logging on ONE time every 365 days. Even more technically since it takes time for pets to starve (25 days total? 10 to get to 0 if they're at 100 hunger and then 15 after that to actually die? Is that the numbers? I don't know. If it is, that's once every 390 days, that's nearly 13 months). No activity has to be done, no feeding, no interacting, literally just type in the username and password and hit the "login" button. If you care little enough to not be able to log in once during that timeframe, it's fair that the more active users get their shot.

While I don't support Oriette's suggestion fully (see my more detailed answer on her thread somewhere, I don't even know what page), I do agree that we need to stop worrying about completely inactive users and focus on the active ones at least to some capacity. This is a great first step that requires very little commitment from the active users while clearing out accounts no one will ever return to (or if they do will probably not remember anything about what they owned anyway)

and maybe I’m greedy and want some of the good names. ¯_(ツ)_/¯ 

but i remember the name clearings WAYYYY back when. I remember watching and waiting. I remember people sniping names from the SB and being so mad but like... that was the name of the game. I MISS that. I miss the name market being lucrative because there were names to be had! 

It took a while, but I managed to start feeling better. I found self-help books. I even graduated from college, though not a single person realized I'd made it except my own kids. 

Friends I had on facebook kept telling me to come back. I kept refusing. They finally left me alone, but still talked about it.

Years later, I was feeling good again, but I was having physical health issues after having a mini-stroke caused by medication I was put on, and arthritis. Friends still talked to me about Rescreatu, so I popped in to take a peek because I was curious. I saw my pets and realized I'd missed them. I saw my friends, who were excited to see me back. I started crying because I felt like I came home.

I was gone five years, but Rescreatu was still "home." And because I did not have to start over, and because some people returned pets to me that I'd given them when I left... I stayed.

Because I was home. And it felt amazing to be back.

I didn't have to start over. Everything I'd worked for was here still. It was great!

Does Rescreatu need work? Yes, it does. But one thing I always hated was the name market. One name can mean things to many. A birthstone, a favorite rock, a name sent to a person as a mockery because of a difference of Opinions that ended up staying on the profile with a pet page filled with quotes. To be fully honest, it isn't how many you have, it is what you do with it.

Clear the named from permanently banned accounts, yes. I'd even support clearing names from inactive accounts after a few years. But you don't know what is going on with a person when they leave. Give them time. They might be back. They might also find out Rescreatu is home.

As for items going for auction, no. Leaving them on those accounts or deleting them just raises the value of the rest.

Question....if you had to log in once every so often during this time just to make sure your things were safe, would you have done that? Simply log in, then close the site. If that's ALL you had to do, would that be too much?

Could be done like Subeta does?

If a user is gone for more than one year, the name becomes available for taking -- not cleared automatically, no, just in case, but if uh... I had the names Boar and Kichebo, once upon a time there. I left for a few years and eventually found my way back.

Boar had been taken and the pet I did have was Boar_5432 or something like that. Kichebo was fine, untouched, because no one wanted that name like they wanted Boar.

So it's not a clearing. It's a "if you want it, take it. If not, coolio." and then if it IS taken, it can have a few numbers tacked onto it or... Whatever.

This way, no one's forgetting what the pet used to be named, so if someone comes back and wants the name back it's easier to remember AND there's a chance of their names not being taken at all. 

It's actually very similar to how username taking is set up right now, actually.