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Re: Deleting Old Members [message #11922 is a reply to message #11903]

Tue, 22 July 2003 20:50

creamywf

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prottoss wrote on Tue, 22 July 2003 09:18

Ok, but let's consider the sort of functionality you want. As I understand it you want to delete users who's verified account is older then a certain date. I say a verified account, because unverified accounts are automatically deleted after speficied number of days in the admin control panel. Now, I suppose we could say that you consider 'inactive' user a user who did not post any messages. There maybe many active users who are members but simply choose to lurk on the forum and/or converse via private messages why delete their accounts?
So, my first question is what do you wish to gain by deleting those accounts, you certainly don't suffer any performance issues due to a few unused accounts. The second question is how do you reliably determine an unused account? Heck, a person could've went on vacation and came back 3 weeks later to find their account gone due to lack of activity, that just does not happen in any other application I am aware of.

We had over 130 members that had registered but not posted in over 6 months, some not in a year and a half. Our active members (a few hundred) put a lot of effort into their posts and don't appreciate lurkers/voyeurs.

The main reason for deleting though, was that we are a controversial community and we have gotten quite a few people that lurk under various fake member names (so they have several accounts) and sometimes do things like post people's real names and addresses, etc. We are a big community, which has several AOL chat rooms, and where many have known each other for years and years. When someone gets into a fight with someone else, they sometimes use the forum as a way to mess with people, and they use fake names to do wrong things on our forum. The IP addresses don't seem to help, they obviously have some way around that. They just keep joining under new names.

So every now and then, we clear off the forum of old member names.

We would like to have some way of moderating new registrants, but our version is 2.3.3 and apparently doesn't have that feature and we just paid a lot of money for the upgrade not that long ago. We can't afford to upgrade every time there is a new release.

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		Deleting Old Members By: creamywf on Tue, 22 July 2003 01:26
		Re: Deleting Old Members By: Ilia on Tue, 22 July 2003 01:32
		Re: Deleting Old Members By: creamywf on Tue, 22 July 2003 01:36
		Re: Deleting Old Members By: Ilia on Tue, 22 July 2003 02:30
		Re: Deleting Old Members By: creamywf on Tue, 22 July 2003 02:54
		Re: Deleting Old Members By: Ilia on Tue, 22 July 2003 13:18
		Re: Deleting Old Members By: creamywf on Tue, 22 July 2003 20:50
		Re: Deleting Old Members By: JamesS on Tue, 22 July 2003 17:27
		Re: Deleting Old Members By: Ilia on Tue, 22 July 2003 19:43
		Re: Deleting Old Members By: creamywf on Tue, 22 July 2003 20:51
		Re: Deleting Old Members By: Ilia on Tue, 22 July 2003 21:51
		Re: Deleting Old Members By: creamywf on Tue, 22 July 2003 22:32
		Re: Deleting Old Members By: Ilia on Tue, 22 July 2003 23:21
		Re: Deleting Old Members By: creamywf on Tue, 22 July 2003 23:38
		Re: Deleting Old Members By: Ilia on Wed, 23 July 2003 01:49
		Re: Deleting Old Members By: Ilia on Thu, 24 July 2003 22:29
		Re: Deleting Old Members By: creamywf on Fri, 25 July 2003 01:30
		Re: Deleting Old Members By: JamesS on Mon, 28 July 2003 18:09

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