It might seem useless, but it is question number 1. We should not deleted it. Who knows what would happen? Maybe all other questions start to trickle through the hole this creates. More seriously, my understanding was it actually is kept for historical/sentimental reasons; several subsequent ...

Yes, according to the blurb of the front page: I understand there do exist 4.7 million accounts (the number grew to 4.9 million since the text was put in place). But over a million of those are zombie accounts, already eligible for automatic deletion on the basis of inactivity. In fact, Th...

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