Fatty August 2, 2006 Share Fatty GC Founder August 2, 2006 I like to keep the members database somewhat "clean" around here. When I look at our total forum membership, I'd like to think that many of those are somewhat active, or at least were and are away for a while. I'd never want to remove a member who contributed to our boards in a big way, but then move on to do something else and might possibly come back to visit. So, without any pride in our total number of members, which has reached over 1,000 again, I'm ready to chop chop. Now, if I start a prune job that finds any members that registered before 12-31-2005, is in the "member" group, and has less than 5 posts, I come up with 207 members. The main reason behind this is me not wanting to send emails out to people who have no intentions of being around or care about what's going on...perhaps they stopped in for a day or two, but really make no contributions to discussions, etc. If I bump it up to "less than 10 posts" with the other above criteria, the number jumps to 282. (I think the first time I did this back a while, I deleted nearly 300 accounts, I'll look for the topic) Thoughts? Ahh, found it: http://www.gamrs.co/forums/in...=24875&hl=prune Guess it wasn't as many as I thought. Oh, after reading, I guess that was the second time. While I like to see the number of registered forum users rise, that number doesn't really represent active users. At least I'm consistant in my thinking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JackieChan August 2, 2006 Share JackieChan GC Alumni August 2, 2006 Now, if I start a prune job that finds any members that registered before 12-31-2005, is in the "member" group, and has less than 5 posts, I come up with 2007 members. Hi typo! If I were to decide, I'd go with the 5 or less posts. But the way I see it, either way works. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chief August 2, 2006 Share Chief Member August 2, 2006 If some old LuckyCharm or BlackOps or some other guild from the olden (original Mmmm) days happend across the server and came to the forums it would be cool to have the older dates preserved, but activity of 10 posts seems pretty reasonable for a threshold. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fatty August 2, 2006 Author Share Fatty GC Founder August 2, 2006 LOL 2007, ya, um, 207. Ya, Chief, I highly doubt anyone that we even actually now in any depth posted less than 5 or 10 times. Here, take a look: Go here: http://www.gamrs.co/forums/in...php?act=Members Go to the bottom, select "members" "by total posts" "ascending order" and "50" and you'll see the first fifty (you could look through the first 5 pages and see all of the people that probably would be deleted. However, again, if they just joined in 2006, you wouldn't see them. Hmm....makes me think.....one sec. Whoa, if I go up to join date of prior to May of this year and less than 5 posts, it jumps to 322. btw, the first time I pruned I decided to add this into the registration blurb: You acknowledge that inactive accounts with no history of any board constributions are frequently deleted without any notification. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chief August 2, 2006 Share Chief Member August 2, 2006 Someone complaining about a ban posts 5 times. 10 posts is at least 2 or 3 threads. Prune em! Then do less than 25 posts from Jan '05. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrDuke August 2, 2006 Share MrDuke Member August 2, 2006 Anything less than 5 posts seems reasonable. Even if someone crabs about being deleted, so what? How hard is it to re-register? ZD did it 5 times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DNA August 2, 2006 Share DNA Member August 2, 2006 Someone complaining about a ban posts 5 times. 10 posts is at least 2 or 3 threads. Prune em! Then do less than 25 posts from Jan '05. Yup....I even had more than 10 post in a few months and I was super NOOBIE ba bOBBIE... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wayfarer August 2, 2006 Share wayfarer Member August 2, 2006 I agree with Duke. They can always re-register. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shadow August 2, 2006 Share shadow Member August 2, 2006 I think the less than 5 post is good also. If people love our servers so much I think they would take the time to take part in the website part of it and post up to share their ideas or at least to support us for something that they enjoy so much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allanon August 2, 2006 Share Allanon Member August 2, 2006 *walks over with mob* prune them! prune them! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fatty August 3, 2006 Author Share Fatty GC Founder August 3, 2006 I'm gonna go with my last one: before May, and less than 5. Wave goodbye to 322 of our friends! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EbilDustBunny August 3, 2006 Share EbilDustBunny GC Alumni August 3, 2006 (edited) buh bye Edited August 3, 2006 by EbilDustBunny Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fatty August 3, 2006 Author Share Fatty GC Founder August 3, 2006 Member Account(s) Deleted The action was executed successfully Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anonymo August 3, 2006 Share anonymo Member August 3, 2006 Think of all the extra cash we coulda piled in by selling the info from those 300+ accounts...I'm sure someone would have been interested in cheap meds... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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