Delete old members

[Dean]

Do you recon we should?

[Blank Verse]

90 days is only 3 months...that's not long enough

[Jan]

This topic has come up before. I disagree that any member should be deleted due to *inactivity*. Just because they don't post doesn't mean a thing.

There is no rule that says a member has to post X amount of posts a day, a week, a month or even a year.

A lot of members are just lurkers.

[Akalon]

No, they aren't using up much space and it looks good to have lots of members :p

[ADD:] If it's neccessary, delete members who have 1 or less posts and haven't logged in in 6 months.

[is0lized]

i agree but way more then 90 days... probley inactive for a good year and 0 posts...



Peo/Todd disagrees

[Webdude]

Originally posted by Jan
This topic has come up before. I disagree that any member should be deleted due to *inactivity*. Just because they don't post doesn't mean a thing.

There is no rule that says a member has to post X amount of posts a day, a week, a month or even a year.

A lot of members are just lurkers.

Well, if they come here and are logged in, they are active and the board stats would show them as active. They dont have to post to be in the active catagory. Simply coming here and logging in accomplishes that. Or if they are auto logged in by cookie, that does the same thing..

So by "inactive" I think he means those that havent been here within a certain amount of time. However, in my own opinion...the only accounts that should be removed are the duplicates because they bloat the member count so that's it's not a accurate count. However, minus those, the number you see at the top of the forum shows how many members it has had in total since Peo switched to this forum software.

I think it's more of a case where VB should show total members in two catagories. Total members in whole, and total active members. Shouldnt be that hard of a vbhack really. A couple of template edits, maybe two php file edits, and then a $lastlogon count at the top of the forums for the past however many days (90 maybe?)..

[Moonman]

no.

[Jan]

There is a member online now who joined in September last year with only one post. But he is still here.

http://www.freewebspace.net/forums/member.php?s=&action=getinfo&userid=3647

[The Red Guy]

This topic is discussed over a million times already. I disagree with any deleteing of members. How do you know that they don't use the board? I support Webdude's point. You can't determine they're activity by post counts alone.

[Blank Verse]

Look at it this way, we have members with thousands of posts who are no more active then then ones with one post, cause a lot of those posts are crap, so Webdude's point is legit.

[anhedonia]

If they haven't logged in for several months; then yes.

[murat]

hmmm, who cares ? no thing will change

[The Red Guy]

Originally posted by anhedonia
If they haven't logged in for several months; then yes. How much space can they possibly use up?

[Bruce]

Originally posted by The Red Guy
How much space can they possibly use up? A few kBs. Nothing too significant.

As I have said all along, I see no reason why any accounts should be deleted even if they haven't logged in for a year or more.

No one will recieve any benefits by deleting inactive accounts, except for a small amount of diskspace, however, disk space, I'm sure, is still plentiful on the server.

[LeX]

Are these people who aren't here bothering you?

[The Red Guy]

Originally posted by LeX
Are these people who aren't here bothering you? The decision ultimately lies with Peo, and it doesn't bother him one bit.

[anhedonia]

Originally posted by The Red Guy
How much space can they possibly use up?

Maybe it isn't about space??? Maybe it's about freeing up usernames? I never mentioned space, did I? No.

But why let a username be taken if it isn't even being used? That's just pointless.

[The Red Guy]

Originally posted by anhedonia


Maybe it isn't about space??? Maybe it's about freeing up usernames? I never mentioned space, did I? No.

But why let a username be taken if it isn't even being used? That's just pointless. Then just choose another! It's pointless if you just delete old members to free up usernames.

[Blank Verse]

They may not post here often, but they still lay claim to the username.

It's the whole you snooze, you lose philosophy.

[anhedonia]

Originally posted by The Red Guy
Then just choose another! It's pointless if you just delete old members to free up usernames.

If they haven't logged in for like six months, what the hell is the point of keeping the username taken up ffs? That's just dumb. :rolleyes:

[Jan]

Some of those who haven't logged in for a long time could very well be banned members and there are a hell of a lot of those.

If they are not deleted, it prevents them being able to rejoin with the same user name. Or others joining with that user name which would confuse the heck out members who remember that particular banned member.

[is0lized]

good point jan, but, when members are banned they get moved to ''un registered'' and not in registered anymore

[Jan]

They are obviously still recognised though. I noticed in birthdays a week or so ago a guy who has been banned numerous times had three of his *names* in the birthday list.

[The Red Guy]

Originally posted by is0lized
good point jan, but, when members are banned they get moved to ''un registered'' and not in registered anymore I thought it was Guest?

[anhedonia]

Originally posted by Jan
Some of those who haven't logged in for a long time could very well be banned members and there are a hell of a lot of those.

If they are not deleted, it prevents them being able to rejoin with the same user name. Or others joining with that user name which would confuse the heck out members who remember that particular banned member.

Ban I.P.? So maybe some of them are banned members, but there'd be heaps who weren't. For example I have an old account called "damage control" and I never use that anymore. So why keep it there? What if another person wanted that name, they couldn't have it, they'd have to put like 38484 on the end of their name or some ugly ---- like that.

[The Red Guy]

Originally posted by anhedonia


Ban I.P.? So maybe some of them are banned members, but there'd be heaps who weren't. For example I have an old account called "damage control" and I never use that anymore. So Maybe ppl can notify admins to delete the username?

[Warp]

and next.. to unregister domains that have not been active lately..... mmmm be able to get some good domain names then ;)

[Homeygwiz]

If a user hasn't Logged on or posted in A long time then for just clean up purposes yes delete the username and account.

I would be like keeping around old HTML documents on your server that you know longer use anymore.

Throw away anything that isn't being used.

HGW - "Thats my theory."

[MN-Carl]

Ahem

"If it aint broken don't fix it"

:rolleyes:

[anhedonia]

Why are people so against it? I mean, honestly, is it going to affect you tragically if all the old members aren't listed?

[The Red Guy]

Originally posted by Homeygwiz
If a user hasn't Logged on or posted in A long time then for just clean up purposes yes delete the username and account.

I would be like keeping around old HTML documents on your server that you know longer use anymore.

Throw away anything that isn't being used.

HGW - "Thats my theory." Then how do you know they do not use the accounts?


Originally posted by anhedonia
Why are people so against it? I mean, honestly, is it going to affect you tragically if all the old members aren't listed?Then is it going to affect you if they are deleted? :rolleyes:

[anhedonia]

Originally posted by The Red Guy
Then is it going to affect you if they are deleted? :rolleyes:

Well, that was officially lame.

[Todd]

Here's what I've done in the past. If it's a registered member and someone wants their username then it becomes first come first serve. (The original person gets to keep the name) However, if it's someone who hasn't confirmed their email for more then 30 days then I'll change their username and free it up for someone else to use. That's only done after someone requests it though; I'm not going to change usernames for all people who haven't confirmed their account by default.

There really isn't much of a point in deleting members for inactivity. The space issue is so insignificant it's a non-issue. By you simply surfing the forums you generate more used space in the form of logs. There are literally GB's of logs generated from all the activity and if that's not an issue inactive members certainly aren't.

[ComFreak]

Originally posted by anhedonia


Ban I.P.? So maybe some of them are banned members, but there'd be heaps who weren't. For example I have an old account called "damage control" and I never use that anymore. So why keep it there? What if another person wanted that name, they couldn't have it, they'd have to put like 38484 on the end of their name or some ugly ---- like that.

Why Ban IP's???

If my IP was banned say (Admins etc. pls Don't)I'd still be able to get back in(as some people still use Dial-Up) this would then block other people for another persons actions don't you think this is un fair?

Jan to your post about the person who has 3 Banned Names well i think thats the only time you should IP Ban!