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Re: Deleting Old Members [message #11925 is a reply to message #11924]

Tue, 22 July 2003 22:32

creamywf

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prottoss wrote on Tue, 22 July 2003 17:51

I am not saying there are no situations where deletion a large number of forum members is not waranted. However, in most cases I do not see a neeed for such a feature. Especially since my fear is that it would lead to accidental deletions that are completely unrecoverable.

At the moment you have 2 ways to handle the situations:
1) Delete members 1 by one
2) Connect to the database used by the forum and mark all of the accounts you want to remove as 'un-confirmed' and the forum will delete them automatically within a few days.
To do this you need run a query that looks something like this:
UPDATE fud21_users SET email_conf='N' WHERE login IN('login1', 'login2', ...);

I disagree. It's an area that needs to be looked at in my opinion. Control of membership is important. Right now when you delete a member, their past posts if any, show up as GUEST.

We've had situations where moderators got upset with someone and deleted hundreds of posts while we were scrambling around trying to figure out how to shut her off. The groups manager takes a while....you have to add her then shut off her delete priviledges. Going to the admin panel and blocking her or deleting her also takes time.

There are many examples. Just because you personally aren't involved in situations where that ability is important doesn't mean it's not important to many others.

Why have hundreds of members on your forum that have never used it and never come back after signing up? It artificially inflates your actual membership and makes management of member problems more difficult.

As for the argument that it would make accidental deletion easy, that is just not the case. Taking 2-3 steps to delete a membership instead of 14 just makes more sense period. If you can easily'accidentally' delete a membership in 2-3 steps, how can you possibly be managing a forum in the first place?

Anyway, just my view of it here from one user's world.

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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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