For a box to qualify as abandoned, all people associated with the letterbox (including the carvers, planters, owner, and the person who originally listed the box) will not have logged into Atlas Quest for one year. At this point, the status of the their boxes will be controlled automatically based on the finds and attempts associated with the box. The precise requirements to have the status automatically change is not public (and is subject to change), but as a whole, boxes that are found recently will have a status of "active," those with lots of attempts will be listed as "retired," and those boxes with just a small number of attempts will be listed as "unknown."