>In this case, the field naming was more to do with how the users think - everyone is active unless they explicitly mark them as inactivated.
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So, to say someone is active, you must say "NOT inactive"- using double negatives to indicate a positive.

Using Tore's approach you'd use a negative "NOT active" to indicate a negative and the positive "Active" to indicate a positive.

It sounds like nitpicking but it isn't.



>>Actually, I would prefer to call the field Active..