Deleting users.

[RavenChild]

I have seen a number of people lately that have only posted 2 times or some other low number and haven't ever been heard from again. some other forums that i was part of, did a cleanup every so often and cleaned the forum of users that had been inactive for a year, had no posts and no activity for some time, or people banned for life. Does this kind of this happen here every so offten or does the number of users just keep increasing?

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[Thany]

I think it only increase : just look at all those 2001 users no longer here :p

[xris]

Well, as GHDPro has already said, AnimeSuki started on 26th December 2002. The forums have been around before that but not as an anime related site (that's why you can see members back from 2001), so the (real) forums are about a year old now.

There hasn't really been a need to do things like remove inactive users, while they do take up some storage space, it doesn't look like the we are running out of steam. It might happen in the future but who knows. I've been using the site since I discovered BT on 26th Jan 2003 (joined the forums on 29th Jan), a lot of new members have joined since then :)

BTW, is there a reason for your question?

[RavenChild]

Well, as GHDPro has already said, AnimeSuki started on 26th December 2002. The forums have been around before that but not as an anime related site (that's why you can see members back from 2001), so the (real) forums are about a year old now.

There hasn't really been a need to do things like remove inactive users, while they do take up some storage space, it doesn't look like the we are running out of steam. It might happen in the future but who knows. I've been using the site since I discovered BT on 26th Jan 2003 (joined the forums on 29th Jan), a lot of new members have joined since then :)

BTW, is there a reason for your question?

no, i just read two posts started by people that only have one post and haven't been back since. it was just a question about the forums, nothing else.

[Lefteris_D]

Why delete extra users if they dont post? They dont take up any space or anything(besides a few kb in the database). Btw, I'm a "2001" user myself...

[Mb81]

*Datebase Reasons*

Please no Mass Pruning etc.. that`s only ends in work for me (yeah, i`m lazy, i know..) normaly...

I think, with currently 500 Users on the board; doing nothing is fine *g*.

[RavenChild]

*Datebase Reasons*

Please no Mass Pruning etc.. that`s only ends in work for me (yeah, i`m lazy, i know..) normaly...

I think, with currently 500 Users on the board; doing nothing is fine *g*.


ohh, i thought that there was more than 500. that changes everything. i'm a network lover so every time i have a chance i clean up my domain at my house. but i'm not a neat freak in real life, just in my virtual hole.

[xris]

ohh, i thought that there was more than 500.

You are correct, there are more than 500. There are over 7,000 members of this forum. Perhaps what Mb81 meant was that were are usually no more than 500 active members using the forum at any one time (which is irrelevant to the point you were making concerning removing non-active members).

You just have to get used to the mindset that there are oodles of Mb storage on the server so there's little point in doing a spring clean of the deadwood :)

[GHDpro]

There would be no reason to do this for space reasons -- plenty of
HD space is still left on the server. And as Mb81 already mentioned,
it's not very neat to delete users which still have a few posts,
as those posts will be assigned to "Guest".

What I may do soon is delete all users which have registered, but
not posted anything (0 posts total) since November 2003.
That would get rid of the "2001" users which were not anime fans for example.

At least, I've done this a few times in the past. Previously those "2001"
users which did post at least something in the anime forums of the old
days would not have been deleted, but this time they will.

[GHDpro]

FYI, I've just deleted 2184 (!) forum users who:

- Registered before November 2003 (before the reset)
- Haven't posted anything in that time (0 posts)
- Haven't logged on for 120 days (4 months)

If you do not fall into the categories above obviously
your account will not have been affected at all.