What to do when someone leaves the company?

[mcwumbly (Dave McClure)]

We let email bounces automatically deactivate the account:

Indicate member is deactivated on their usercard and/or avatar

I was playing around with ideas today for how to automatically show that a user of our forum has left the organization. This was something we had in one of our previous solutions (Socialcast added an “Alumni” icon over users’ avatars who were no longer active). It helped other users understand quickly that they should be directing their posts to someone else when following up on an older thread with people who are no longer around. One promising avenue is to detect when their emails start boun…