Just removing the content is not sufficient; one must still respond to the ticket with the information that Linode requests in order to keep the server from being disabled. The instructions in the ticket I received were not hard to understand or comply with in this regard and the whole thing was resolved within minutes of my response.

I’m not sure what the point is of interrogating me here; I am just a third party who went through the same thing and thought additional detail about the process would be appreciated. I didn’t have any service interruption, but I followed Linode’s instructions, and this leads me to conclude that the OP probably did not.