Why do Discord accounts that have sat idle for a while get removed from Discord: https://discord.gg/69Km47zH98?

[Nick Rivers]

On Wed, Aug 17, 2022 at 11:56 AM Patrick Williams <patrick at stwcx.xyz> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Aug 17, 2022 at 10:57:23AM -0700, Nick Rivers wrote:
> > Why do Discord accounts that have sat idle for a while get removed from
> > Discord: https://discord.gg/69Km47zH98 ?
> >
> > This doesn't seem in alignment with other community forums.
>
> I'll copy what I wrote on Discord about this earlier today as well:
> ---
> Those accounts are “removed” in the sense that they don’t show up on the
> active members list but nobody is kicked/banned.  You should be able to follow
> the permanent invite we have and reactivate.
>
> We’ve had a problem with people [accidentally] creating multiple accounts
> with the same name, which can make it difficult to @ the right person.  Discord
> has an easy way to have the server prune anyone which hasn’t used Discord in
> the last 30 days and I enabled that option, primarily as a way to prune those
> duplicate accounts.
> ---
>
> So, if you haven't opened the Discord application on any device in the
> last 30 days, there is a chance you will get pruned.  Just follow the
> link and you will get re-added.
>
> --
> Patrick Williams

And I responded with:
Thank you @stwcx for the explanation of the problem and why this is a
reasonable solution. Sorry to have troubled you with minutiae.

Again thank you Patrick!