Administratively managed accounts and terms of usage at public Galaxy servers

@Anton_Bryantsev

You had this account restored back in January 2021 after it was administratively suspended then purged as a duplicate account in October 2020.

Once enabled again, you created more work in a history that was technically purged and already had the old datasets in it purged. Old or new data in a purged history will continue to be screened for and removed every 14 days.

There is a technical corner-case problem on our side but it will only present when an account has been administratively managed. Specifically, one of your histories was not labeled as purged in the GUI until this last cycle of administrative cleanup. The other histories were labeled as purged and couldn’t be worked in, and now this one is, too.

Until we correct that, anyone with an enabled administratively managed account should not create new work in any history that has a creation date earlier than the date the account was re-enabled. Or better, simply avoid using multiple accounts to start with. Terms of use are one account per person at each distinct public Galaxy server, including UseGalaxy.org.

Getting an account at Galaxy Main (http://usegalaxy.org)

We are sorry that you lost your new work in that single history with the wrong state assigned when the account was re-enabled. But the good news is that there was not much new work, and there is one new history you created/worked in after the account was re-enabled and it was not impacted. In our email communications in January 2021, you asked for the account to be enabled with or without prior data. I re-explained the terms of usage and how you can proactively resolve multiple accounts yourself before those are administratively managed for breaking the terms of service. The processes that detect and remove multiple accounts that are in use by the same person do not always capture all of the multiple accounts an individual may have. But everyone can fix this if the terms were unclear: consolidate data into one account and delete any extras under User > Preferences. Follow the terms of service and there are never problems.

Thanks for helping to keep UseGalaxy.org a free and fair public resource for researchers worldwide.

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