Maybe I'm off-base for even suggesting this, but as I was scrolling through the member lists, I noticed a TON of members who apparently signed up in 2003, shortly after this site came back up full-time after the long layoff, and they haven't posted anything in 3 1/2 closing in on four years now...
Why not purge them from the rolls?
You know Terry, people ask me why I don't do this on my site, and I just don't understand why it's necessary to do that. It's not like it takes up any real measureable space to have those accounts in there.
Seriously, what would be the benefit of deleting them?
We're the same. A lot of people join to read and download stuff. I think even my brother has registered at this site but I have no idea what his username is. I asked him if he had posted and he looked at me like I was mad.
A lot of people have no interest in posting but like to be passive and read the great stuff you post...
If it's someone who's registered years ago but logged in last week, even without posting then that's dandy. Clearing the old members would reduce the size of the DB, making queries faster as there's less results to flicker through.
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It's what you give for what you get... time vs. membership size.
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On the bright side, it might "accidently" delete Savicki and Thunder.
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Originally Posted by Kristy
For Christs sake, Lounge, have you ever read a single post that you haven't felt the need to include in your sig????
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wisdumOriginally posted by Steve Savicki
It's what you give for what you get... time vs. membership size.
Originally posted by EAT MY ASSHOLE
For Christs sake, Lounge, have you ever read a single post that you haven't felt the need to include in your sig????
Yes.
1,416 of your's
That would be "Joe Thunder".Originally posted by Seshmeister
I think even my brother has registered at this site but I have no idea what his username is.
Originally posted by EAT MY ASSHOLE
For Christs sake, Lounge, have you ever read a single post that you haven't felt the need to include in your sig????
Way to go for another, Asshole.
make that 1,417
I just want to be a "somebody"...Originally posted by ThrillsNSpills
Way to go for another, Asshole.
It's a very strange type of rejection when Joe Thunder and Jesterstar have made this dubious "Honor Roll" and you haven't...
Bake up some of your famous Dingleberry Pie, you'll get in.Originally posted by EAT MY ASSHOLE
I just want to be a "somebody"...
It's a very strange type of rejection when Joe Thunder and Jesterstar have made this dubious "Honor Roll" and you haven't...
It's a plan.
Yeah, I suppose it isn't mandatory that people participate...I'm cool with that.Originally posted by Seshmeister
We're the same. A lot of people join to read and download stuff. I think even my brother has registered at this site but I have no idea what his username is. I asked him if he had posted and he looked at me like I was mad.
A lot of people have no interest in posting but like to be passive and read the great stuff you post...
Guess I should have made the suggestion about those who joined 4 years ago and haven't been onsite in 3 1/2 or so, as opposed to those who don't post but just like to log on and check out stuff...Originally posted by Brett
You know Terry, people ask me why I don't do this on my site, and I just don't understand why it's necessary to do that. It's not like it takes up any real measureable space to have those accounts in there.
Seriously, what would be the benefit of deleting them?
I mean, if someone has been totally non-active to the point of not having even BEEN to the site for several years, MY question would be what would be the downside of deleting them?
In the past year I have had my hotmail email account nuked 3 or 4 times simply because I did not log in once every month or so. While it was a simple enough matter to reactivate the account, it seriously pissed me off that it was necessary to, and that any stored emails were lost each time. It does not endear hotmail to me!
I did not log in here at rotharmy.com even once between 06-20-2006 to 01-10-2007, yet my account remains intact. Quite pleased about that!
While it does seem on the face of it to make some sense to delete unused accounts, how do you determine that they will never be used again?
Coz your MEMBER(ship) appears a lot smallerOriginally posted by Terry
I mean, if someone has been totally non-active to the point of not having even BEEN to the site for several years, MY question would be what would be the downside of deleting them?
if you go deleting all those people !
Unless you fuck with the php a bit :p
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shaggydoo and Panamark raise good points...
I just think it's a shame there are so many non-active members here, many of whom may have a lot to offer, yet we are deluged with fuckwits like katy and thunder...
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Plus the stats just LOOK kinda lame at first glance:
members 22,477
staff 34
active 3,834
non-active 18,643
activity level 17.06%
Not sure exactly what constitutes non-active, but there sure is a lot of it.
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Well now there's a great idea hiding undereneath that statement, maybe we could just delete the fuckwits instead!!! Yeah let's do itOriginally posted by Terry
...I just think it's a shame there are so many non-active members here, many of whom may have a lot to offer, yet we are deluged with fuckwits like katy and thunder...
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